Evie was doing an experiment for her biology class. She determined that if she randomly selected a student from the class, the probability that they had brown hair was 0.5, the probability that they had blue eyes was 0.57, and the probability that they had neither brown hair nor blue eyes was 0.2. Determine the probability that a randomly selected student has brown hair and blue eyes.

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Evie was doing an experiment for her biology class. She determined that if she randomly selected a student from the class, the probability that they had brown hair was 0.5, the probability that they had blue eyes was 0.57, and the probability that they had neither brown hair nor blue eyes was 0.2. Determine the probability that a randomly selected student has brown hair and blue eyes.

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