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A toy car has eight C batteries three of which are dead if three batteries are selected at random without replacement find the probability that all three batteries are defective. Answer the following problems using multiplication rule make sure to reduce your fraction.

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\begin{gathered} \text{the probability is} \\ (3)/(8)\cdot(2)/(7)\cdot(1)/(6)=(1)/(56) \\ p=(1)/(56) \end{gathered}

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