SOLUTION: Suppose 5 fair coins are tossed. Use Pascal's triangle to find the number of ways of obtaining exactly 2 heads.

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Question 980244: Suppose 5 fair coins are tossed. Use Pascal's triangle to find the number of ways of obtaining exactly 2 heads.
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If you have n coins the exact number of k heads is the (k + 1)th number in the nth row of Pascal's Triangle.

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