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Miscellaneous 7 (II) · Q56

Q.A fair coin is tossed 4 times. Let X denotes the number of heads obtained write down the probability distribution of X. Also find the formula for p.m.f. of X.

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Tossing a fair coin 4 times, the number of ways of getting x heads is (4x)\binom4x, out of 24=162^4=16 equally likely outcomes. So P(X=0)=1/16,P(X=1)=1/4,P(X=2)=3/8,P(X=3)=1/4,P(X=4)=1/16P(X=0)=1/16, P(X=1)=1/4, P(X=2)=3/8, P(X=3)=1/4, P(X=4)=1/16, with general formula $P(X=x)=\dfrac{\binom4x}{16}=\binom4x\left(\dfrac12\righ …

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