One or more options correct
A fair coin is tossed times. Let be the event that no two consecutive tosses are both heads, and the event that exactly three heads occur. Which of the following is (are) correct?
- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.
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Answer: A
Count sequences of length with no two adjacent H: they are counted by Fibonacci numbers, , so . Sequences with exactly heads and none adjacent: choose non-adjacent positions out of , , so . Also . Therefore and . (A) is correct. (B) ; incorrect. (C) ; incorrect. (D) ; incorrect. Exhaustive enumeration of all sequences confirms these values. Answer: A only. A common slip is to confuse with : the conditioning event changes the denominator from to favourable sequences.
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