Why cant i get the sound to work on my mackbook

i tryed to play music in i tunes and the sound wont work i even pluged in headphones and it still wont work. i would like to know how do i fix the problem can someone plz help me

What do you see in System Preferences (under the Apple menu) > Sound > Output tab? Is anything selected? Where is the volume set?
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