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Inertialforce
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Homework Statement
I just have a small question about probability and how they determine whether or not an event is "equally likely" or not.
For example, one of the questions in my textbook has a question:
Two coins are tossed and the number of heads is counted. What is the probability of obtaining two heads? Are the outcomes equally likely?
The answer to this question in the answer key is "no".
However there is another question similar to this question further down that says:
An equally spaced triangular spinner numbered 1 to 3 is spun, and two coins are tossed, are all the outcomes equally likely?
The answer to this question was "yes".
The Attempt at a Solution
My question is basically how come in the first one it is not equally likely while in the second one it is?
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