After some experimentation, you have determined that you have a biased coin. The probability of heads is 0.6 and the probability of tails is 0.4. What is the probability that you will observed heads on three successive flips?
A) 0.6
B) 0.36
C) 0.24
D) 0.216
E) 0.096

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The probability of three successive flips all resulting in heads is:
P(HHH) = 0.6 * 0.6 * 0.6 = 0.216. Therefore, the answer is D.

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