13. Two employees on a university campus, Michael from Plant Operations, andJordan from Public Safety, are assigned to check that a certain building on thecampus is locked over the weekends. Suppose that on any weekend the probabilitythat Michael checks is 0.96, that Jordan checks is 0.98, and that they both check is0.95. What is the probability that neither Michael nor Jordan check on a weekend?

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