Philippus flips a fair coin 100 times. Let the outcome be the number of heads that he sees. Philippus now flip his fair coin n times. He is interested in the event "there are (strictly) more heads than tails." What's the probability of this event for the following values of n? (g) an arbitrary positive integer n

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Philippus flips a fair coin 100 times. Let the outcome be the number of heads that
he sees.
Philippus now flip his fair coin n times. He is interested in the event "there are
(strictly) more heads than tails." What's the probability of this event for the following
values of n?
(g) an arbitrary positive integer n
Transcribed Image Text:Philippus flips a fair coin 100 times. Let the outcome be the number of heads that he sees. Philippus now flip his fair coin n times. He is interested in the event "there are (strictly) more heads than tails." What's the probability of this event for the following values of n? (g) an arbitrary positive integer n
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