Consider the following two independent experiments
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Problem
Consider the following two independent experiments.
• Experiment 1: A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 cards.
Event A: drawing an ace or a king.
• Experiment 2: Two fair six-sided dice are rolled together.
Event B: obtaining a total of 9 or 10 on the two dice.
Which statement about the likelihood of these events is correct?
(a) Event A is more likely than Event B
(b) Both events are impossible
(c) Event B is more likely than Event A
(d) Events A and B are equally likely