Finite Math For Dummies
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A common situation when doing probability problems is having to determine the patterns of heads-and-tails, boys-and-girls, true-or-false arrangements. When there are two choices, there are 2n ways that they can occur. The following refer to Heads-or-Tails in a coin-flipping situation but can be adapted to any binomial arrangement.

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Mary Jane Sterling is the author of Algebra I For Dummies, Algebra Workbook For Dummies, and many other For Dummies books. She taught at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years, teaching algebra, business calculus, geometry, and finite mathematics.

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