A pharmaceutical company receives large shipments of ibuprofen tablets and uses this acceptance sampling plan: randomly select and test 22 tablets; then accept the whole batch if there is at most one tablet that doesn't meet the required specifications. If a particular shipment of thousands of ibuprofen tablets actually has a 5% 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 22 tablets; then accept the whole batch if there is at most one tablet that doesn't meet the required specifications. If a particular shipment of thousands of ibuprofen tablets actually has a 5% 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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