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Confidence Intervals · Superchallenge problem

A coin with P(heads)=12P(\text{heads}) = \tfrac12 is tossed n=10n = 10 times, and the usual 95% interval p^±1.96p^(1−p^)/10\hat p \pm 1.96\sqrt{\hat p(1-\hat p)/10} is built from the proportion of heads. What is the EXACT probability that this interval contains 12\tfrac12? Give a fraction.