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document.write( "A biologist finds that 24% of fruit flies have short wings and 47% 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? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "P(not short wings) = 1-0.24 = 0.76<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "P(not eye defects) = 1-0.47 = 0.53<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "P(not short wings AND not eye defects) = 0.74*0.53 = 0.3922<BR>\n" );
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