SOLUTION: An experiment consists of rolling a die and then flipping a fair coin the number of times that are shown on the face of the die. What is the probability of getting between two an

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Question 1035919: An experiment consists of rolling a die and then flipping a fair coin the number of
times that are shown on the face of the die. What is the probability of getting between two
and five tails inclusive?

Answer by robertb(5830)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let X = # times tails appear.
If the die turns up 2,.
If the die turns up 3, .
If the die turns up 4, .
If the die turns up 5, .
If the die turns up 6, .
Since all these cases are mutually exclusive,
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