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In a hockey match, both teams A and B scored same number of goals upto the end of the game, so to decide the winner, the referee asked both the captains to throw a die alternatively and decide that the team, whose captain gets a first six, will be declared the winner. If the captain of team A was asked to start, find their respective probabilities of winning the match and state whether the decision of the refree was fair or not.

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