A Large Disaster Cleaning Company Estimates That 30 Percent of the Jobs

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Multiple Choice

A large disaster cleaning company estimates that 30 percent of the jobs it bids on are finished within the bid time.Looking at a random sample of 8 jobs that it has contracted,calculate the probability that exactly 4 of the jobs were not completed within the bid time.

• A).0081
• B).2401
• C).0113
• D).1361

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