Estimating the value of probability by binomial distribution

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The Centers for Disease Control say that about 30% of high school students smoke tobacco. Suppose you randomly selected three high school students to survey them on their attitudes toward scenes of smoking in the movies. What's the probability that among three randomly selected high school students:

a. None is a smoker?

b. Exactly one is a smoker?

c. All three are smokers?

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