A post office received 1000 post-cards, where 25 cards were soaked with a rain water. If 100 cards from 1000 received are randomly taken for a delivery to customers. Find the probability that exactly 1 card from that 100 are soaked? (One  may use hypergeometric distribution)

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A post office received 1000 post-cards, where 25 cards were soaked with a rain water. If 100 cards from 1000 received are randomly taken for a delivery to customers. Find the probability that exactly 1 card from that 100 are soaked? (One  may use hypergeometric distribution)

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