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Even Heads with Mixed Fair and Unfair Coins

Probability · Medium · Free problem
You flip 10 coins: 5 are fair (each heads with probability $\frac{1}{2}$) and 5 are unfair with some unknown fixed bias $q \in [0, 1]$. All flips are independent. What is the probability that the total number of heads is even?

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