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A New Surgical Procedure Is Said to Be Successful 90

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A new surgical procedure is said to be successful 90% of the time. Suppose the operation is performed five times and the results are assumed to be independent of one another. Define x to be the number of successful operations.
a. Find the probability that all five operations are successful.
b. Find the probability that exactly four are successful.
c. Find the probability that fewer than two are successful.


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