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A game of coins (Posted on 2010-11-09) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Siddharth and Alok have 10 coins and 9 coins respectively. They are playing a game in which they throw up all their coins simultaneously and observe the number of coins which land heads up. The person with more heads wins. If there are no trick coins, what is the probability that Siddharth wins?
Additionally, calculate the probabity that Siddharth loses?

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Some Thoughts re: solution ..... I DOUBT IT- Comment 4 of 4 |
(In reply to solution by Charlie)

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Edited on November 10, 2010, 4:48 am
  Posted by Ady TZIDON on 2010-11-10 04:09:32

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