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Brian, a landscape architect, submitted a bid on each of three home landscaping projects. He estimates that the probabilities of winning the bid on Project A, Project B, and Project C are 0.7, 0.5, and 0.2, respectively. Assume that the
(a) Win all three of the bids
(b) Win exactly two of the bids
(c) Win exactly one bid
(b) Win exactly two of the bids
(c) Win exactly one bid
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