A backpacking party carries three emergency signal flares, each of which lights with a probability of .98.
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(a) The probability that at least one flare lights.
(b) The probability that exactly two flares light.
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Statistics Principles And Methods
ISBN: 9780470904114
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Authors: Richard A. Johnson, Gouri K. Bhattacharyya
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