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What is the probability of getting at least 5 heads in 6 tosses of a fair coin?

Operations Research : Applications and Algorithms

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Author:Wayne L. Winston

Publisher:Wayne L. Winston

Chapter17: Markov Chains

Section17.3: N-step Transition Probabilities

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