SOLUTION: Please help me !!! Use an equiprobable sample space to commute the probability of getting exactly 3 heads in 6 tosses of a fair coin.

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Question 1023293: Please help me !!!
Use an equiprobable sample space to commute the probability of getting exactly 3 heads in 6 tosses of a fair coin.
Answer by richard1234(7193) About Me  (Show Source):
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P(3/6 heads) = (6C3)/2^6 = 20/64 = 5/16

Here, nCr denotes the binomial coefficient or "n choose r."