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The owner of a pawn shop knows that 85 percent of the customers who enter her...
The owner of a pawn shop knows that 85 percent of the customers who enter her store will sell an item rather than pawning it. If there are 20 customers in the shop, what is the probability that at most 5 of the customers will pawn an item?
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