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Lydia wanted to flip a coin and roll a die at the same time, but she also wondered what the probability of the coin landing on heads and the die landing on a 5 would be. She did a little bit of thinking and came up with 1/4 as the probability.

In complete sentences, determine if Lydia is correct or incorrect and explain using what you know about compound probability of independent events.

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Answer:

incorrect

Explanation:

this is because it would be 1/2 and 1/6. you would have to multiply the bases for a probability of 1/12

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