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We toss 3 coins 100,000 times. How many times do we expect to see "Exactly 1 Head" appearing?

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you will see it only once
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When 3 fair coins are tossed, the probability of exactly one head appearing is found from:

P(1\ head)=3C1*((1)/(2))^(3)=(3)/(8)
Therefore in 100,000 trials we would expect to see exactly one head

100,000*(3)/(8)=37,500\ times
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