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Miss `C` has either Tea or Coffee at moming break. If she has tea one morning, the probability she bas tea the next moming is `0.4`. If she has coffee one morning, the probability she has coffee next moming is `0.3`. Suppose she has coffee on a Monday morning. The probability that she has tea on the following Wednesday morning is

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