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Question
A coin is flipped to decide which team starts the game. What is the probability that your team will start?
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Solution
A coin has two faces − Head and Tail. One team can opt either Head or Tail.
Probability = `"Number of favourable outcomes"/"Number of possible outcome"`
Probability (our team starts first) = `1/2`
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