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A coin is tossed $12$ times. How many different sequences of tosses could there have been, if the number of heads was at least $5?$

 Aug 18, 2024
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So what you can do is breaking it up into cases.

Case 1: 10 heads at least

 

there are a total of 12 flips so you should do 12c10 (combintorics), this is 66

so there are 66 ways for case 1

 

Case 2: 11 heads at least

12c11 is 12 so 12 ways for case 2

 

Case 3: 12 heads at least

12c12=1 so there is 1 way for case 3,

 

 

If you add them all up you get 79, (66+12+1=79)

 Aug 23, 2024

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