A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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A family has a day of eight activities planned:shopping, picnic, hiking, video games, movie, dog park, restaurant, and car wash.
To make it more adventurous, they decide to randomly pick the order of the activities out of a hat. Find the probability that video games and restaurant are chosen consecutively, in either order.
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