A fair coin is tossed 5 times. What is the probability of exactly 3 heads?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C.

  1. Step 1: The number of heads is binomial with and . Step 2. . **Answer: . Why not the others:** : the binomial coefficient was left out. : only the successes were counted. : the probability was squared.

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