Question

Timothy is conducting an experiment where he flips a two-sided coin 5 times. How many different outcomes could Timothy's experiment have?

Answer 1

Timothy is conducting an experiment where he flips a two-sided coin 5 times. How many different outcomes could Timothy's experiment have?

Answer: Let us assume, that when coin falls with side 1 up, this is an event $a$ and when it falls with side 2 up it is event $b$. Then, we can write all the possible event combinations:

As you can see, together it is 32 combinations, we could calculate it, as the $2^{5} = 32$.

Answer: experiment can have 32 different outcomes.