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2000 AMC 8 Problem 21

Keiko tosses one penny and Ephraim tosses two pennies. The probability that Ephraim gets the same number of heads that Keiko gets is:

\text{(A)}\ \dfrac{1}{4} \qquad \text{(B)}\ \dfrac{3}{8} \qquad \text{(C)}\ \dfrac{1}{2} \qquad \text{(D)}\ \dfrac{2}{3} \qquad \text{(E)}\ \dfrac{3}{4}


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