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A special deck of cards has ten cards. Four are green, three are blue, and three are red. When a card is picked, its color
of it is recorded. An experiment consists of first picking a card and then tossing a coin.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The Probability of an event  is defined as

 

 

In this Experiment first picking a card and then tossing a coin is involved.

Since the sample space consists of all the possible outcomes.

Therefore, sample space is defined as

.

Let be the event that a blue card is picked first, followed by a head on the coin toss, then

,

.

Since there are blue cards in the deck of cards and a coin has two faces, H or T.

Therefore,

Hence,        

 

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
Openstax
ISBN: 9781938168208

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