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Heads you lose, tails I win

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2021

C. J. Bradley*
Affiliation:
Clifton College, 32 College Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3JH

Extract

The array shown in the diagram, where each integer appearing shows the number of routes to that point, assuming there is a North-South wall that cannot be crossed, but otherwise constructed using the same one-step, no back-tracking rules as in the production of Pascal’s triangle, may be used as the starting point of an interesting investigation, provided one’s pupils know a bit about combinations, the binomial theorem and discrete probability distributions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1991

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