Probability Problem

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A man tosses a coin 1010 times, scoring 11 point for each head and 22 points for each tail. Let P(k)P(k) be the probability of scoring at least kk points.

Find the largest value of kk such that P(k)>12P(k)>\frac{1}{2}

Note by Krishna Jha
7 years, 8 months ago

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We can make use of a generating function to get the number of ways to score points:

G(z)=(z1+z2)10G(z) = (z^1+z^2)^{10}

The coefficient of each ziz^i for i=10..20 is the number of ways of scoring 'i' points.

We can see that the largest k occurs in the middle of the expansion, which is k=15

P(k=15)=i=510(10i)210=6381024=0.623046875P(k=15) = \dfrac{\sum_{i=5}^{10}\binom{10}{i}}{2^{10}}=\frac{638}{1024}=0.623046875

gopinath no - 7 years, 8 months ago

pls check for the soln on the following link www.careerpoint.ac.in

sumedh bang - 7 years, 8 months ago

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Akhil Kumar - 5 years, 10 months ago
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