A biased coin has one chance in ten of landing heads. It is tossed 400 times. Estimate the probability of getting between 40 to 50 heads. (Hint: This is Normal Approximation to Binomial, application of CLT.) P(40 ? x ? 50): 0.5762 0.4525 0.4902 0.6144
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