After high school graduation you decide to become a chicken farmer. You experiment with several types of packaging, but even with the most secure cartons, 4% of your eggs break during shipping. Assuming that all eggs have the same probability of breaking, what is the probability that a carton of 12 eggs has at most 2 that are broken

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After high school graduation you decide to become a chicken farmer. You experiment with several types of packaging, but even with the most secure cartons, 4% of your eggs break during shipping. Assuming that all eggs have the same probability of breaking, what is the probability that a carton of 12 eggs has at most 2 that are broken?

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