A coin is tossed 6 times. Find the probabilities of getting the following:
a.) Exactly 3 heads
Here is the binomial rule:
If is the probability of getting success in trial,
and is the number of trials, and , then the
probability of getting exactly successes out of the
trials is
Here a success will be a head on a coin, and a trial
will be a toss. Here is the probability
of getting head in trial. There are
trials (tosses), so . Then the probability of
getting exactly heads out of the trials
is gotten by substituting in that expression, with
.
Edwin