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Narrative: Shaking hands
Suppose the chances of picking up a cold from someone by shaking hands with them is .01 (assuming you don't know whether they have a cold or not), and that each encounter you have is independent of another.
-{Shaking hands narrative} Explain, using probability, why your chance of not getting a cold in a given day decreases as the number of handshakes you make increases?

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