To avoid being stuck with a shipment of defective HDTV sets, a large retailer tests a random sample of three televisions for defects before purchasing the entire shipment. If any of the three HDTV sets are defective, the entire shipment is rejected. If a manufacturer of HDTV sets has a 1.2% defect rate, what is the probability that a shipment of its HDTV sets will be rejected by this retailer?

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Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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To avoid being stuck with a shipment of defective HDTV sets, a large retailer tests a random sample of three televisions for defects before purchasing the entire shipment. If any of the three HDTV sets are defective, the entire shipment is rejected. If a manufacturer of HDTV sets has a 1.2% defect rate, what is the probability that a shipment of its HDTV sets will be rejected by this retailer?

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