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A fair coin is tossed independently four times. the probability of the event "the number of times heads show up is more than the number of times tails show up" is

Option: 1

\frac{1}{16}


Option: 2

\frac{1}{8}


Option: 3

\frac{1}{4}


Option: 4

\frac{5}{16}


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\mathrm{n(s)=16}

Favourable cases \mathrm{=\{\mathrm{HHHT}, \mathrm{HHTH}, \mathrm{HTHH}, \mathrm{THHH}, \mathrm{HHHH}\}}

No of favourable cases = 5

Required Probability =\frac{5}{16}

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