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If you flip a coin once you would expect:

Heads

or

Tails

If you flip a coin a second time you would expect:

heads

heads
tails
tails

heads
tails

So out of four possibilities 

headsheads headsTails
TailsHeads TailsTails

there is a one in four chance of getting two heads.

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