A pharmaceutical company receives large shipments of ibuprofen tablets and uses this acceptance sampling plan: randomly select and test 23 tablets, then accept the whole batch if there is at most one that doesn't meet the required specifications. If a particular shipment of thousands of ibuprofen tablets actually has a 4% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted?  P(accept shipment) =           (Please show your answer to 4 decimal places)

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A pharmaceutical company receives large shipments of ibuprofen tablets and uses this acceptance sampling plan: randomly select and test 23 tablets, then accept the whole batch if there is at most one that doesn't meet the required specifications. If a particular shipment of thousands of ibuprofen tablets actually has a 4% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted? 

P(accept shipment) =           (Please show your answer to 4 decimal places)

 

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