Question #341126

if you were to flip a coin 20 times what is the probability you wpuld get exactly 10 heads



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Expert's answer
2022-05-17T11:55:49-0400

Each coin can either land on heads or on tails, 2 choices. 

This gives us a total of 220 possibilities for flipping 20 coins.

Probability of an event = {Number of ways it can occur} / {Total number of outcomes}

Now how many ways can we get 10 heads? This is 20 choose 10, or 20C10_{20}C_{10}  

This means our probability is

20C10/220=18475610485760.1762_{20}C_{10}/2^{20}=\frac {184756} {1048576}\approx 0.1762.



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