GATE CE 2020 Set 2 — Question 28

NAT+1 / -0EasyBinomial DistributionProbabilityEngineering Mathematics

Engineering Mathematics → Probability → Binomial Distribution

Last updated 5 September 2026

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A fair (unbiased) coin is tossed 15 times. The probability of getting exactly 8 Heads (round off to three decimal places), is___________.

P(X=k) = \binom{n}{k} p^k (1-p)^{n-k}

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P(X=k) = \binom{n}{k} p^k (1-p)^{n-k}

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