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In Exercise 103 from Section 8.3, we learned that if a fair coin is flipped n times, the number of head/tail arrangements follows a geometric sequence.
a. Determine the number of head/tail arrangements if a fair coin is flipped 3 times, 4 times, and 5 times.
b. If a couple ha- 3 children, how many boy/girl sequences are possible for the three births? List the outcomes using "B " for boy and "G " for girl.
c. If a couple has 4 children, how many boy/girl sequences are possible for the four births?
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