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A coin is flipped two times. What is the probability of getting at least one head?

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D

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When a fair coin is tossed two times, the sample space representing all possible outcomes is:


The total number of possible outcomes is .

Let be the event of getting at least one head. This includes outcomes with exactly one head or two heads:



The number of favorable outcomes is .

The probability of the event is given by the formula:



Thus, the probability of getting at least one head is .

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A coin is flipped two times. What is the probability of getting at least one head?
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