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Old 09-12-2005, 04:18 AM
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This questions appear to be common sense qns but im really scratching my head.
1) 3 players toss coins in order. The first to throw a head is a winner.What s the probability of the first second and third player respectively winning?
2)Whats the prob of a sum of 8 appearing before sum of 7 ,when a pair of fair dice are rolled?
3)A urn contains w white chips, b black chips and r red chips .The chips are drawn at random, one at a time, with replacement.Whats the probability a white appears before a red ?
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