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An unbiased coin is tossed. If the outcome is a head then a pair of unbiased dice is rolled and the sum of the numbers obtained on them is noted. If the toss of the coin results in tail then a card from a well-shuffled pack of nine cards numbered is randomly picked and the number on the card is noted. The probability that the noted number is either or is
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Let, be the event that the noted number is either or
And, be the event that the toss of coin results in head and be the event that the toss of coin results in tail.
Then, we have
And, getting the sum of the numbers on the pair of dice as or
The total number of cases, when a pair of dice is thrown are and the cases of getting sum or are cases.
Similarly, getting the number or from the numbers
Now, using the total probability theorem, we get
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