Friday, June 24, 2011

Friday Puzzle

A simple probability problem today that James Tanton tweeted a bit ago:

In my pocket I have a fair Head-Tail coin and an illegal Head-Head coin. I pull one of the 2 from my pocket at random and flip it. It shows Heads. What is probability that the other side is also Heads?
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answer: 2/3

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