A fair coin is tossed 3 times in succession. The probability of the event that 'both first and second toss result in head' is ________ (rounded off to two decimal places).
IIT JAM 2025 Question 45: Probability and Bayes' theorem
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This question is on Repeated trials: binomial and geometric probabilities, part of Probability and Bayes' theorem in Statistics.
Probabilities from independent repeated experiments.
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