Suppose that an underground military installation is fortified to the extent that it canwithstand up to four direct hits from air-to-surface missiles and still function. Theprobability that an enemy aircraft scores a direct hit with these particular missiles is 0.7.What is the probability that a plane will require fewer than 8 shots to destroy theinstallation?

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