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Two bullets sit at random in a six-chamber revolver and the first pull is empty. What is the probability the next pull fires? What if the bullets are known not to be adjacent?

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Two bullets are placed at random in a six-chamber revolver. The first pull finds no bullet. What is the probability that the next pull has a bullet? What if you know the two bullets are not in adjacent chambers?

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