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A man has 10 shillings and one of them is known to have two heads. He takes one at random and tosses it 5 times and it always falls head. What is the chance that it is the shilling with two heads?

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Solution

Taking out two head shilling has probability=110
Getting head from this shilling has probability=1
So, Required probability110×1×1×1×1×1
110

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