In a chocolate factory, there are two employees that stamps the chocolate with logo. Mark, a sleepy employee, only randomly stamps 40% of the time everytime a chocolate pass the conveyor.  While Carlie, a tired employee, randomly stamps 30% of the time a chocolate pass the conveyor. Assume this is a Bernoulli Random process and that chocolates pass the employees one-by-one. What is the probability that Carlie's sixth stamp is on the tenth chocolate that passed her? Express your answer in percentage using up to 5 significant figures.

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In a chocolate factory, there are two employees that stamps the chocolate with logo. Mark, a sleepy employee, only randomly stamps 40% of the time everytime a chocolate pass the conveyor.  While Carlie, a tired employee, randomly stamps 30% of the time a chocolate pass the conveyor. Assume this is a Bernoulli Random process and that chocolates pass the employees one-by-one.

What is the probability that Carlie's sixth stamp is on the tenth chocolate that passed her? Express your answer in percentage using up to 5 significant figures.

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