HMMT 2002 V7
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A manufacturer of airplane parts makes a certain engine that has a probability of failing on any given flight. Their are two planes that can be made with this sort of engine, one that has 3 engines and one that has 5. A plane crashes if more than half its engines fail. For what values of do the two plane models have the same probability of crashing?
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0, \frac{1}{2}, 1
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