diff --git a/guide/english/mathematics/example-all-the-ways-you-can-flip-a-coin/index.md b/guide/english/mathematics/example-all-the-ways-you-can-flip-a-coin/index.md index f9c68e0945..9a5e6eed7f 100644 --- a/guide/english/mathematics/example-all-the-ways-you-can-flip-a-coin/index.md +++ b/guide/english/mathematics/example-all-the-ways-you-can-flip-a-coin/index.md @@ -3,13 +3,20 @@ title: Example All the Ways You Can Flip a Coin --- ## Example All the Ways You Can Flip a Coin -This is a stub. Help our community expand it. +In the experiment of flipping a coin, the mutually exclusive outcomes are the coin landing either heads up or tails up. -This quick style guide will help ensure your pull request gets accepted. +When we flip a coin a very large number of times, we find that we get half heads, and half tails. We conclude that the probability to flip a head is 1/2, and the probability to flip a tail is 1/2. + +Consider the experiment of flipping of **n** coins where we can enumerate all possible outcomes as follows, where H indicates a head, and T a tail: + +* **n = 1** | H T +* **n = 2** | HH HT TH TT +* **n = 3** | HHH THH HTH HHT TTH THT HTT TTT +* **n = 4** | HHHH THHH HHHT THHT HHTH THTH HHTT THTT HTHH TTHH HTHT TTHT HTTH TTTH HTTT TTTT + +The formula for all possible outcomes of flipping n coins is 2 to the nth power. - #### More Information: - - +- [Theory of Probability](http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~stte/phy104-F00/notes-2.html)