If you repeatedly flip a coin, will the odds get exponentially lower that you will keep getting heads, or does the probability always remain 50/50?
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The probability is always 50/50 of every flip of the coin. Think about it - the coin does not somehow "know" what the previous tosses had as a result. This is the difference between a single toss probability, and the average of a large number of tosses. With a large number of tosses, the totals will usually even out to about 50/50. But this never changes the 50/50 chance of any individual toss. [Of course, this assumes that you have a normal coin, not weighted on one side or the other, or somehow else favoring one side.] Former math major and math-anxious tutor +2 for ?
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When you flip a coin it is always 50/50 as there are logically two sides to the coin on which it will land(unless you are trying to flip it in a way to cheat). Now if you are asking about the statistics it is increasingly harder to get X many heads/tails in a row. for example the odds of getting 2 heads in a row is (0.5)^2 and etc for (0.5)^X.
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