@dave: thank you.. nice explanation :) On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Dave <dave_and_da...@juno.com> wrote:
> @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. > > -- 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.
