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  1. September 26th 2007, 08:04 PM #1
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    A fair coin in flipped 9 times. Find the probability of exactly 5 heads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chaunie View Post
    A fair coin in flipped 9 times. Find the probability of exactly 5 heads.
    use Bernoulli Trials. the formula is found in post #34 here

    you want P(5)
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