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Hoping to increase the chances of reaching a performance goal, the director of a research project has assigned three separate research teams the same task. The director estimates that the team probabilities are .9, .8, and .7 for successfully completing the task in the allotted time. Assuming that the teams work independently, what is the probability that the task will not be completed in time?

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This solution shows how to calculate the probability of a task not being completed on time by three separate research teams.

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Probability of task not completed = probability of team 1 does not complete X probability of team 2 does not complete X probability of team 3 not complete (remember that ...

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