JEE Main · 2021 · 25 Jul 2021 · Shift 2 · Probability

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A fair coin is tossed n -times such that the probability of getting at least one head is at least 0.9 . Then the minimum value of is ____

Answer: 4

Solution

The probability of no head in tosses is , so the condition is

Since and , the smallest such is .

JEE Main · 2021 · 25 Jul 2021 · Shift 2 · Integer answer

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