A Section of an Exam Contains Two Multiple-Choice Questions, Each

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Multiple Choice

A section of an exam contains two multiple-choice questions, each with three answer choices (listed "A", "B", and "C") . Assuming the outcomes to be equally likely, find the probability (as a reduced Fraction) that both answers are the same ("AA", "BB" or "CC") . [Hint: List all the outcomes of the
Sample space first.]

• A) 1 / 27
• B) 1 / 6
• C) 1 / 9
• D) 1 / 3

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