A series of 20 jobs arrive at a computing center with 50 processors. Assume that each of the jobs is equally likely to go through any of the processors. If any processor can handle at most four jobs without being overloaded, what is the probability of an overload?

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A series of 20 jobs arrive at a computing center with 50 processors. Assume that each of the jobs is equally likely to go through any of the processors.

  1. If any processor can handle at most four jobs without being overloaded, what is the probability of an overload?
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