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A chemist analyzes seawater samples for two heavy metals: leadand mercury. Past experience indicates that 38% of the samplestaken from near the mouth of a river on which numerous industrialplants are located contain toxic levels of lead or mercury; 32%contain toxic levels of lead and 16% contain toxic levels ofmercury

What is the probability that a randomly selected sample will notcontain lead or will not contain mercury?

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