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> The question as stated does not permit such a choice by the host since if it were a choice, it had already been made.

I don't think you understand the concept of conditional probabilities correctly.

The fact that event B already happened doesn't make it any easier to compute P(A|B) nor it renders the P(B) useless.

On the contrary P(B) and P(AB) are key to solve this problem.






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