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As part of a promotion, both you and your roommate are given free cellular phones from a batch of 10 phones. Unknown to you, five of the phones are faulty and do not work. Find the probability that one of the two phones is faulty.
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A. 0.555556
B. 0.777778
C. 0.222222
D. 0.277778
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