Advanced Engineering Mathematics
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An executive has to visit 1 of his 5 plants for an inspection. If these plants are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and if he selects the plant he will visit at random, find the probability that he will do the following. (Enter your probabilities as fractions.)
(a) visit plant number 3
(b) visit an odd-numbered plant
(c) not visit plant number 5
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