lets play a game and below is the situations -you will be flipping a fair coin, until it lands heads -if a heads shows up within 6 flips, you lose say you begin playing, have flip the coin 4 times already and only gotten tails. going forward, what is the probabilty you will win?

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lets play a game and below is the situations

-you will be flipping a fair coin, until it lands heads

-if a heads shows up within 6 flips, you lose

say you begin playing, have flip the coin 4 times already and only gotten tails.

going forward, what is the probabilty you will win?

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