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Suppose 1.5 percent of the antennas on new Nokia cell phones are defective. For a random sample of 10 antennas, use the binomial distribution to find the probability that:

a. None of the antennas is defective.
b. Three or more of the antennas are defective.
c. At most 3 are defective.
d. All 10 antennas are defective.

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