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At least one of the answers above is NOT correct. 1 of the questions remains unanswered. (1 point) A fair coin is tossed three times and the events A, B, and C are defined as follows: A: \{ At least one head is observed \} B: \{ At least two heads are observed \} C: \{ The number of heads observed is odd \} Find the following probabilities by summing the probabilities of the appropriate sample points (note that 0 is an even number): (a) P(not B) = 4/8 (b) P((not B) and C) = 7/8 (c) P(A and B and C) = Note: You can earn partial credit on this problem.

          At least one of the answers above is NOT correct.
1 of the questions remains unanswered.
(1 point)
A fair coin is tossed three times and the events A, B, and C are defined as follows:
A: \{ At least one head is observed \}
B: \{ At least two heads are observed \}
C: \{ The number of heads observed is odd \}
Find the following probabilities by summing the probabilities of the appropriate sample points (note that 0 is an even number):
(a) P(not B) = 4/8
(b) P((not B) and C) = 7/8
(c) P(A and B and C) = 
Note: You can earn partial credit on this problem.
        
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At least one of the answers above is NOT correct.
1 of the questions remains unanswered.
(1 point)
A fair coin is tossed three times and the events A, B, and C are defined as follows:
A: { At least one head is observed }
B: { At least two heads are observed }
C: { The number of heads observed is odd }
Find the following probabilities by summing the probabilities of the appropriate sample points (note that 0 is an even number):
(a) P(not B) = 4/8
(b) P((not B) and C) = 7/8
(c) P(A and B and C) = 
Note: You can earn partial credit on this problem.

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A fair coin is tossed. At least one of the answers above is NOT correct. 1 of the questions remains unanswered. A fair coin is tossed three times and the events A, B, and C are defined as follows: A: {At least one head is observed} B: {At least two heads are observed} C: {The number of heads observed is odd} Find the following probabilities by summing the probabilities of the appropriate sample points (note that 0 is an even number): a) P(not B) = 4/8 b) P(not B and C) = 7/8 c) P(A and B and C) = Note: You can earn partial credit on this problem.
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00:01 In this question, a fair coin is tossed three times, and we're looking at some probabilities of different events.
00:08 It recommends that we find these probabilities by adding the probabilities of sample points.
00:14 So let's start with listing the sample points.
00:17 When you toss a fair coin three times, this is one possible outcome.
00:22 Heads on the first, heads on the second, heads on the third.
00:27 Or it could go, heads, heads, tails.
00:30 Heads, tails, heads.
00:31 So i'm just listing out all of the possible outcomes here.
00:41 Let's make some space for the last one.
00:45 Three tails.
00:47 So these are all the possible outcomes that might occur.
00:51 There's eight in total because there's two options for each slot here, each toss.
00:56 So it's two times two times two.
00:59 And all of these are equally likely to happen since heads and tails are equally likely.
01:04 So each of these is one in eight.
01:09 Let's look at these questions.
01:11 Part a, we want the probability of not c.
01:17 So we want not for the number of heads to be odd.
01:23 So that means it's not going to be one, it's not going to be three.
01:27 It has to be zero or two.
01:29 How many of these outcomes meet that criteria? so we want either zero or two heads.
01:34 Well, here's two and here's zero...
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