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A container contains 15 diesel engines. The company chooses 7 engines at random, and will not ship the container if any of the engines chosen are defective. Find the probability that a container will be shipped even though it contains 2 defectives if the sample size is 7.
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\n" ); document.write( "# of ways to succeed:: 13C7
\n" ); document.write( "# of random sets of 7:: 15C7
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\n" ); document.write( "Ans: 13C7/15C7 = 0.2667
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