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A medicine is known to be 75% effective to cure a patient. If the medicine is given to 5 patients, what is the probability that at least one patient is cured by this medicine?

A

`(1)/(1024)`

B

`(243)/(1024)`

C

`(149)/(1024)`

D

`(781)/(1024)`

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