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Simple and Compound Event

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Describe the following events A,B,C in the random experiment of tossing three unbiased coins: A: event of getting three tails B: event of getting one head C: event of getting almost one tail Show that, (i) A is an elementary event while B & C are compound events. (ii)Events A,B & C are manually exclusive and exhaustive events.

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