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A fair die is tossed repeatedly until a six obtained. Let X denote the number of tosses required.
The conditional probability that `X ge 6` given `X gt 3` equals

A

`(125)/(216)`

B

`(25)/(216)`

C

`(5)/(36)`

D

`(25)/(36)`

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