JEE Main On 8 April 2017 Question 14

Question: An unbiased coin is tossed eight times. The probability of obtaining at least one head and at least one tails is: [JEE Online 08-04-2017]

Options:

A) $ \frac{127}{128} $

B) $ \frac{63}{64} $

C) $ \frac{255}{256} $

D) $ \frac{1}{2} $

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Answer:

Correct Answer: A

Solution:

$ 1-\int _{{}}^{{}}{P(All,Head)+P(All,Tail)} $

$ 1={ \frac{1}{2^{8}}+\frac{1}{2^{8}} } $

$ =1-\frac{1}{2^{7}} $

$ =1-\frac{1}{128}=\frac{127}{128} $