A. If you flip a fair coin 10 times, which string of results are you more likely

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A. If you flip a fair coin 10 times, which string of results are you more likely to get?

B If you flip a fair coin 10 times, which result are you more likely to get?

C. Smoke spontaneously spreads out from a cigarette to fill a room, but the reverse process is never observed to spontaneously occur (unless some force from outside the system acts). Consider various physical laws:

D. In the space below, give brief explanations of why you chose each of your answers.

Explanation / Answer

A) They are equally probable, the probability is the successful cases divided by the possible outcomes, in both cases we have only one successful case and the same number of total outcomes since in both situations we are flipping a coin 10 times

B)

The result ii, the result 1 has only one possible way to occur, but the result ii has more ways to occur. Meaning it has higher probability

C)

III only.

The second law of thermodynamics specifies the characteristic change in the entropy of a system undergoing a real process. The law accounts for the irreversibility of natural processes, and the asymmetry between future and past.

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