Question: 5 coins are tossed find the probability?
Answer: In this case we are flipping 5 coins -- so the number of possibilities is: 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 32. (Whew!) As you can count for yourself, there are 10 possible ways to get 3 heads. Thus, the probability of getting 3 heads from 5 coin flips is: 10/32, or 5/16.