Suppose you toss a fair coin 10 times. (a) Calculate the probability of getting at least...

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Suppose you toss a fair coin 10 times.

(a) Calculate the probability of getting at least 6 heads, usingthe exact distribution.

(b) Now repeat the calculate above, but approximate theprobability using a normal random variable. Do your calculationboth with and without the histogram correction. Which one is closerto the true answer?

Now suppose you toss a fair coin 1000 times.

(c) What is the probability of getting at least 520 heads? Youcan approximate this using a normal with the appropriate mean andvariance. Do this with and without the histogram correction. (Doesit matter if you use this correction?)

(d) What is the probability of getting at least 600 heads?Calculate this however you want.

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Since coin is fair so getting a head in a single trial is PH 050Let X is a random variable shows the number of heads out of 10Here X has binomial distribution with parameters as follown10 and p 05aThe probability of getting at least 6    See Answer
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