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Currently Playing: Can you solve this coin toss probability puzzle?

Only about 10% of the people who recently tried this probability problem answered it correctly. What's your guess? Daniel Litt, a mathematician at the University of Toronto, delights in posing probability brainteasers like this one to his followers on 𝕏. You can find more of these problems and detailed explanations of their solutions in his interview on our website: https://www.quantamagazine.org/perplexing-the-web-one-probability-puzzle-at-a-time-20240829/ #math #maths #mathematics #probability #puzzle #problemsolving #mathproblem #brainteaser #mathpuzzles


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