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A coin is tossed. Find the total number of elementary events and also the total number of events associated with the random experiment.

When a coin is tossed, there will be two possible outcomes, Head(H) and Tail(T).


Since, the no. of elementary events is 2 i.e. {H, T}


But, we know, if there are n elements in a set, then the number of total elements in its subset is 2n.


Therefore, the total number of the experiment is 4,


So, there are 4 subsets of S = {H}, {T}, {H, T} and Փ


Hence, there are 4 total events in a given experiment.


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