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A fair coin is tossed 6 times. what is the probability that it will land on heads exactly 3 times?

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Answer: 5/16

Explanation:

The number of outcomes with exactly 3 heads is given by (63) because we essentially want to know how many different ways we can take exactly 3 things from a total of 6 things. The value of this is 20. So the answer is 20/64=5/16.

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