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It is known that $60 %$ mice inoculated with a serum are protected from a certain disease. If $5$ mice are inoculated, find the probability that none contact the disease.

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Mice with serum = $0.6$
Mice without serum = $0.4$
No disease contacted Probability = $(0.6)^{5} = 0.07776$

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