What are the odds against getting three tails when you flip three coins?

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Shwetank Mauria
Feb 18, 2016

Odds against getting three tails when you flip three coins are #7#.

Explanation:

When we toss three coins, eight possible outcomes are there such as {HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, TTT}, of which only one i.e. TTT is the desired outcome.

Odds against getting TTT would be given by ratio of number of failures to number of successes.

As there are #7# likely failures against only #1# success

Odds against getting three tails when you flip three coins are #7/1# or #7#.

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