If 8 unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of getting at least 6 heads?
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Rough solution :
For a binomial distribution , the probability of obtaining exactly k successes out of n trials with success rate of each trial be p is P ( k ) = ( k n ) p k ( 1 − p ) n − k .
So we want to find P ( 6 ) + P ( 7 ) + P ( 8 ) , which equals to
2 8 1 [ ( 6 8 ) + ( 7 8 ) + ( 8 8 ) ] = 2 5 6 3 7 .