Question

Mr. Garcia notes that in 84% of the papers his former students have turned in, they cited their sources incorrectly. He plans to go through these papers at random to find one with incorrect citations for a lesson on citing with his current students. Assume that incorrect citations are independent between papers. Let NNN be the number of papers Mr. Garcia selects until he finds one with the sources cited incorrectly. Find the probability that the 3^{\text{rd}}3 rd 3, start superscript, start text, r, d, end text, end superscript paper Mr. Garcia selects will be the first with the sources cited incorrectly. You may round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

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.022

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