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Basketball players John, Vasim, Akash were practising the ball drop in the basket. The probabilities of success for John, Vasim and Akash are `(4)/(5)`,0.83 and 58% respectively. Who had the greatest probability of success?

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`therefore` Vasim had the greatest probability of success.
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