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You flip a coin and then roll a fair six-sided die. The coin lands heads-up and the die shows a one.

show work pls! thanks!

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The probability of getting heads on the coin is 1/2 or 50%.

The probability of rolling a 1 is 1/6 or 16.6%.

Multiplying them will give you the probability of this exact outcome.
1/2 * 1/6 = 1/12.
So, there was a 1 in 12 chance that this exact outcome would happen.
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