A game is played in which a coin is tossed repeatedly till either THHH or HHHH occurs. You win the game if the first seq

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A game is played in which a coin is tossed repeatedly till either THHH or HHHH occurs. You win the game if the first seq

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A game is played in which a coin is tossed repeatedly till
either THHH or HHHH occurs. You win the game if the first sequence
occurs before the second. If the coin is biased with probability
‘p’ of getting heads, what is the probability that you will
win?
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