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Exercise 7.1 · Q11

Q.Find the probability distribution of

(iii) Number of heads in four tosses of a coin.
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Tossing four coins gives 16 equally likely outcomes. The number of ways of getting x heads out of 4 is (4x)\binom4x: 1,4,6,4,1 for x=0,1,2,3,4x=0,1,2,3,4. Dividing each by 16 gives P(X=0)=1/16P(X=0)=1/16, P(X=1)=4/16=1/4P(X=1)=4/16=1/4, P(X=2)=6/16=3/8P(X=2)=6/16=3/8, P(X=3)=4/16=1/4P(X=3)=4/16=1/4, P(X=4)=1/16P(X=4)=1/16, …

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