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Suppose that airplane engines oprate independently and fail with probabitily equal to 0.4. Assuming that a plane makes a safe flight if at least on half of its engins run, then the probabitily for a succesful flight of 4-engine plane is

A

`0.8400`

B

0.8408

C

`0.8200`

D

0.8208

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