What is the probability of flipping a fair coin and getting 'heads' three times in a row?
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1/8 (or 0.125)
Since each flip is independent, you multiply the probabilities: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/8. This is a basic rule of independent events in probability theory.
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