A biologist finds that 25% of fruit flies have short wings and 30% have eye defects. Assuming these two events are independent, what is the probability that a randomly selected fruit fly has neither short wings nor eye defects?

A biologist finds that 25% of fruit flies have short wings and 30% have eye defects. Assuming these two events are independent, what is the probability that a randomly selected fruit fly has neither short wings nor eye defects?

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