A biologist finds that 35% of fruit flies have short wings and 50% 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? Note: White your answer as a decimal to 4 decimal places-not as a percentage

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A biologist finds that 35% of fruit flies have short wings and 50% 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?
Note: Write your answer as a decimal to 4 decimal places-not as a percentage
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