General Grant must send orders to General Butler. Carrier pigeons are the medium of choice. A single pigeon has a .7 probability of arriving at the proper destination in a timely fashion
How many pigeons, each carrying an identical set of orders, must Grant send in order for him to have 98% confidence that the orders reached General Butler?
2: 0.91 3: 0.973 4: 0.9919; one, two, or three is not enough; four will easily achieve the .98 reliability.
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