Why is tossing a coin considered to be a fair way of deciding which team should get the ball at the beginning of a football game.

A coin is flipped to decide which team starts the game. What is the probability that your team will start?

In a multiple choice question, there are five alternative answers of which one or more than one are correct. A candidate will get marks on the question, if he ticks all the correct answers. If he decides to tick answer all random, then the least number of choices should he be allowed, so that the probability of his getting marks on the question exceeds (1)/(8) is

Three fair coins are tossed. The probability of getting exactly one head is,

We have read in this chapter that there are four main stakeholders when it comes to forests and wild-life, which among these should have the authority to decide the management of forest produce?Why do you think so?

Of the members of three athletic teams in a certain school, 21 are in the basketball team, 26 in hockey team and 29 in the football team. 14 play hockey and basket ball, 15 play hockey and football, 12 play football and basketball and 8 play all the three games bow many members are there in all?

A box contains N coins, m of wiich are fair and the rest are biased. The probability of getting a head when a fair coin is tossed is 1/2, while it is 2/3 when a biased coin is tossed. A coin is drawn from the box at random and is tossed twice. The first time it shows head and the second time it shows tail. What is the probability that the coin drawn is fair ?

The minimum number of times a fair coin needs to be tossed, so that the probability of getting at least two head is at least 0.96, is-