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A town has two fire engines that operate independently. Theprobability that a specific fire engine is available is 0.99. a) What is the probability that neither is available whenneeded? b) What is the probability that a fire engine is availablewhen needed? A town has two fire engines that operate independently. Theprobability that a specific fire engine is available is 0.99. a) What is the probability that neither is available whenneeded? b) What is the probability that a fire engine is availablewhen needed?

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1/100 chance of each not being there so (1/100)(1/100)=1/10000 or .01% of it happening b) What is the probability that a fire engine is availablewhen needed? It would be the other 9999/10000 times (1-(1/10000)) or 99.99%where at least one fire truck would be there

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