A shelf in the Metro Department Store contains 80 colored ink cartridges for a popular ink-jet printer. Five of the cartridges are defective. (a) If a customer selects 3 cartridges at random from the shelf, what is the probability that they are all defective? (Round your answer to five decimal places.) (b) If a customer selects 3 cartridges at random from the shelf, what is the probability that at least 1 is defective? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)

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Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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A shelf in the Metro Department Store contains 80 colored ink cartridges for a popular ink-jet printer. Five of the cartridges are defective.

(a) If a customer selects 3 cartridges at random from the shelf, what is the probability that they are all defective? (Round your answer to five decimal places.)


(b) If a customer selects 3 cartridges at random from the shelf, what is the probability that at least 1 is defective? (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
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