MHB Probability of 4 Adults Having Health Insurance

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66% of adults have health insurance, what is the probability that 4 adults selected at random have health insurance?
 
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Assuming this is from a very large population (and we have to since we not given the size of the population), that would be (0.6)^4.
 

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