What are the odds of winning 3 coin tosses consecutively?

[cali]

Not that long.

Best Answer: Since there is a 1/2 chance of guessing correctly for each coin toss, there is a (1/2)^3 = 1/8 chance of guessing correctly on 3-in-a-row.

This gives the odds in favor to be 1 and the odds against to be 7:1

I hope this helps!

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[thereismore]

1. Correct. It is not that rare. nt

[Recursion]

2. 1 in 8 (nt)

[riversedge]

3. must be another conspiracy theory

it must be -just no other explanation!!

[Liberty Belle]

4. All depends who provided the coins used, and if they were not weighted.

[madaboutharry]

5. It wasn't three in a row.

They were three coin tosses in three different locations in different parts of the state and all tossed by different people.

[yawnmaster]

10. same calculation. 8 ways they can fall and only 1 way of all heads and 1 way of all tails.eom

[Blue Owl]

6. Heads Clinton wins. Tails Clinton wins.

It's that kind of coin toss.

[unc70]

7. Makes "virtual tie" the correct analysis

[PowerToThePeople]

8. this

[HassleCat]

9. There are no odds on this.

It's 50/50 on each coin toss. One is not related to the other in any way. Different coins, tossed by different people, in different places.

[yawnmaster]

11. they are independent events whether consecutive or at the same time or with different coins, etc...

8 ways of 3 coins landing and one way of it being all heads (and one way of being all tails).
So yes there is a probability of 1/8.

in the infinite numbers of alternate universes that are running these caucuses, in about one eighth of them all the flips will end up for Hillary.

We live in one of those universes.

[renate]

12. isn't it something, the way that all this work and money and energy...

... can come down to a 1:8 series of coin tosses? It just sort of makes you think. Well, it makes me think, anyway. Life.... you never know.