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Old 11-05-2003, 02:36 PM
BruceZ BruceZ is offline
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Default Re: very basic question

It looks like my final answer 38.4% is accurate to all 3 significant digits after 3 terms. To see that you have to compute the 4th term, which starts to be a brain-bender because you have a tree of possibilities. This part isn't really germane to the inclusion-exclusion method in particular.
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