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Coin flipping game

Your friend challenges you to a game in which you flip a fair coin until you get heads. If you flip an even number of times, you win. Let \(A\) be the event that you win. Let \(B\) be the event that you flip the coin 3 or more times. Let \(C\) be the event that you flip the coin 4 or more times.

  1. Compute \(\mathbb{P}(A)\).
  2. Are \(A\) and \(B\) independent?
  3. Are \(A\) and \(C\) independent?

 

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