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Transcribed Image Text:Task 3. The automobile engine plant delivered a batch of engines to the car assembly plant. 5 engines taken for
testing. The probability of each of them to pass the test is 0.95. What is the likelihood that the tests will pass
successfully:
a) exactly three engines;
b) at least three engines;
c) all five engines;
d) at least one engine?
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