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Exercise 1

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True or false. Determine if the statements below are true or false, and explain your reasoning.

  1. If a fair coin is tossed many times and the last eight tosses are all heads, then the chance that the next toss will be heads is somewhat less than 50%.

  2. Drawing a face card (jack, queen, or king) and drawing a red card from a full deck of playing cards are mutually exclusive events.

  3. Drawing a face card and drawing an ace from a full deck of playing cards are mutually exclusive events.

Diez, Barr & Çetinkaya-Rundel, OpenIntro Statistics, Probability, End-of-Chapter Exercises, Exercise 1

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Adapted from OpenIntro Statistics © 2019 David Diez, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel & Christopher D. Barr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: OpenIntro Statistics. Imported at revision fee2509.