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Two people have asked you out for a date and you’ve decided to decide who to go with by flipping a coin. The problem is that the only coin you have is biased: you know that heads comes up with a probability of $0.75,$ rather than $0.5$ as is the case with a fair coin. However, you do really want each of the two people to have a fair chance of being picked. Using a combination of two coin flips instead of one, can you find a way of making the random decision fair?

(Hint: the chance doesn't have to be 50:50.)

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