Question

A coin is tossed $3$ times and the outcomes are recorded. How many possible outcomes are there ?

Answer 1

When a coin is tossed once, the number of outcomes is two (Head and Tail) i.e., in each throw, the number of ways of showing a different face is $2.$

Similarly tossing the coin for the second time, there are again the same two outcomes and similarly, for a third toss, the same outcomes appear.

Thus, by the multiplication principle, the required number of possible outcomes is $2\times 2\times 2=8$.