document.write( "Question 582698: A biologist finds that 22% of fruit flies have short wings and 37% have eye defects. Assuming these two events are independent, what is the probability that a randomly selected fruit fly has neither short wings nor eye defects? \n" ); document.write( "

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A biologist finds that 22% of fruit flies have short wings and 37% have eye defects. Assuming these two events are independent, what is the probability that a randomly selected fruit fly has neither short wings nor eye defects?
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\n" ); document.write( "P(not short wings AND not eye defects) = P(not sw)*P(not ed)
\n" ); document.write( "= 0.78*0.63
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\n" ); document.write( "= 0.4914
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\n" ); document.write( "Stan H. \n" ); document.write( "

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