Expected product of head and tail counts
Question
Toss a fair coin times; let be the number of heads and the number of tails. Writing in lowest terms with integers , find .
Short answer
. Since with , we get . Using and gives , so and the sum is .
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- Random Variables and Probability Mass Functions
- Populations, Samples, and Sampling Distributions
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
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