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Cards, Coins, Dice A card is drawn from a 52-card deck. If the card is a face card (jack, queen, or king), we toss a coin. If the card is not a face card, we roll a die. Find the probability that we end the sequence with a “6” on the die. Find the probability that we end the sequence with a “head” on the coin.
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