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An unbiased coin is tossed five times. Find the probability of the given event. (Enter your answer to five decimal places.) The coin lands heads exactly once.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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An unbiased coin is tossed five times. Find the probability of the given event. (Enter your answer to five decimal places.)

The coin lands heads exactly once.

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unbiased coin is tossed five times.

n = 5

x = no. of time head tossed

P(head) = p = 0.5

here x follows binomial distribution because fixed no. of trials, independent events and P(success) = constant

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