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A run of exactly three heads in six tosses

Question

Toss a fair coin 66 times. What is the probability that the sequence contains a block of exactly three heads in a row (a maximal run of length 33, not part of a longer run)?

Short answer

3/163/16. The run can start in position 1,2,31,2,3 or 44. A run at an end needs a tail beside it and leaves two free tosses (44 sequences each); a run in the middle needs tails on both sides and leaves one free toss (22 each). That gives 2(4+2)=122(4+2)=12 of 6464 sequences, i.e. 316\tfrac{3}{16}.

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