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Employee drug testing is done in the following manner. An employee is chosen at random and a urine specimen is taken. The specimen is divided into three vials and each vial is sent to an independent lab. If each lab has a 0.97 probability of detecting illegal drugs when they are present, what is the probability that all three labs detect the drugs.

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