12 - In a communication channel, data are sent in 10-bit packets. The percentage of a bit sent with error on this channel is 5% and the errors are independent from each other. What is the probability that there is exactly one bad bit in a packet sent over this channel. A) 0.3151 B) 0.279 C) 0.0746 D) 0.0105

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12 - In a communication channel, data are sent in 10-bit packets. The percentage of a bit sent with error on this channel is 5% and the errors are independent from each other. What is the probability that there is exactly one bad bit in a packet sent over this channel.
A) 0.3151


B) 0.279


C) 0.0746


D) 0.0105


E) 0.5987

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