Surviving Surgery A doctor gives a patient a 60% chance of surviving bypass surgery

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Surviving Surgery A doctor gives a patient a 60% chance of surviving bypass surgery after a heart attack. If the patient survives the surgery, then the patient has a 50% chance that the heart damage will heal. Find the probability that the patient survives surgery and the heart damage heals.

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QUESTION:

Surviving Surgery A doctor gives a patient a 60% chance of surviving bypass surgery after a heart attack. If the patient survives the surgery, then the patient has a 50% chance that the heart damage will heal. Find the probability that the patient survives surgery and the heart damage heals.

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The probability that the heart heals:

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