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4.4 Exercise 19

Avg difficulty 2.5

A company has three task forces trying to meet a deadline for a new device. The groups work independently, with respective probabilities 0.8, 0.9, 0.75 of completing on time. What is the probability at least one group completes on time? (Think. Then solve “by hand.”)

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 4.4 Problems on Independence of Events, exercise 19

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