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Exercise 7.1 · Q10

Q.Find the probability distribution of

(ii) Number of tails in the simultaneous tosses of three coins.
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Tossing three coins gives 8 equally likely outcomes. If X is the number of tails, the counts by number of tails follow (3x)\binom3x: 1 way for 0 tails, 3 ways for 1 tail, 3 ways for 2 tails, 1 way for 3 tails. Dividing by 8: P(X=0)=1/8P(X=0)=1/8, …

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