The Two Coins
A bag contains two coins: one fair, one with heads on both sides. You pick one uniformly at random and flip it three times, getting heads all three times. What is the probability you picked the two-headed coin? Express as a fraction.
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Source: Standard Bayesian coin-identification exercise from introductory probability texts. Statement written for AxiomIQ.