GATE ME 2020 Set 2 — Question 46

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A fair coin is tossed 20 times. The probability that 'head' will appear exactly 4 times in the first ten tosses, and 'tail' will appear exactly 4 times in the next ten tosses is________(round off to 3 decimal places).

n = 10, k = 4, p = 0.5, q = 0.5

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n = 10, k = 4, p = 0.5, q = 0.5

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