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koban [17]
3 years ago
14

a coin will be tossed 10 times. Find the chance that there will be exactly 2 heads among the first five tosses and exactly 4 hea

ds among the last 5 tosses
Mathematics
1 answer:
777dan777 [17]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

The chance that there will be exactly 2 heads among the first five tosses and exactly 4 heads among the last 5 tosses is P=0.0488.

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem we divide the tossing in two: the first 5 tosses and the last 5 tosses.

Both heads and tails have an individual probability p=0.5.

Then, both group of five tosses have the same binomial distribution: n=5, p=0.5.

The probability that k heads are in the sample is:

P(x=k)=\dbinom{n}{k}p^k(1-p)^{n-k}=\dbinom{5}{k}\cdot0.5^k\cdot0.5^{5-k}

Then, the probability that exactly 2 heads are among the first five tosses can be calculated as:

P(x=2)=\dbinom{5}{2}\cdot0.5^{2}\cdot0.5^{3}=10\cdot0.25\cdot0.125=0.3125\\\\\\

For the last five tosses, the probability that are exactly 4 heads is:

P(x=4)=\dbinom{5}{4}\cdot0.5^{4}\cdot0.5^{1}=5\cdot0.0625\cdot0.5=0.1563\\\\\\

Then, the probability that there will be exactly 2 heads among the first five tosses and exactly 4 heads among the last 5 tosses can be calculated multypling the probabilities of these two independent events:

P(H_1=2;H_2=4)=P(H_1=2)\cdot P(H_2=4)=0.3125\cdot0.1563=0.0488

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