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4. Suppose that an unfair coin comes up tails 53.2% of the time. The coin is flipped a total of 14 times.
a) What is the probability that you get exactly 7 heads?
b) What is the probability that you get exactly 10 tails?
c) What is the probability that you get at most 3 heads?

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a) The probability of tails is 0.532
The probability of heads is ...

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