@Ritu: We are flipping one coin five times. Are you saying that you don't learn anything about the coin by flipping it? Would you learn something if any one of the five flips turned up tails? After a tails, would you say that the probability of a subsequent head is still 3/5?
Dave On Aug 9, 11:19 am, ritu <ritugarg.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > The statement "You randomly pulled one coin from the bag and tossed" > tells that all the events of tossing the coin are independent hence > ans is 3/5 > > On Aug 7, 10:34 pm, Algo Lover <algolear...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > A bag contains 5 coins. Four of them are fair and one has heads on > > both sides. You randomly pulled one coin from the bag and tossed it 5 > > times, heads turned up all five times. What is the probability that > > you toss next time, heads turns up. (All this time you don't know you > > were tossing a fair coin or not). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
