Answer to Question #321012 in Statistics and Probability for kriz

Question

Suppose three coins are tossed and we are interested to determine the

number of heads that will come out. Let us use H to represent the number

of heads that will come out. List the sample space and count the number of

heads in each outcome and assign this number to this outcome.

Answer 1

Sample space: {HHH, HHT, HTH, THH, HTT, THT, TTH, TTT}.

Number of Heads in the outcome: 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0.