No two heads in a row

A fair coin is flipped 10 times. What is the probability that no two heads are adjacent? (to 3 decimals)

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  1. Count valid strings; the count follows a Fibonacci recurrence.
  2. Strings of length n with no HH = F(n+2).

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0.141 (± 0.01)

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