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A coin is tossed 5 times. Find the number of ways of getting 3 head and 2 tail.

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To solve the problem of finding the number of ways to get 3 heads and 2 tails when a coin is tossed 5 times, we can use the concept of permutations of a multiset. Here’s the step-by-step solution: ### Step 1: Identify the total number of tosses and outcomes We are tossing a coin 5 times, and we want to find the number of ways to get exactly 3 heads (H) and 2 tails (T). ### Step 2: Represent the outcomes We can represent the outcomes as a sequence of letters where 'H' stands for heads and 'T' stands for tails. For our case, we have: - 3 heads (H) ...
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