Acompany purchases shipments of machine components and uses this acceptance sampling plan: randomly select and test 24 components and accept the whole batch if there are fewer than 3 defectives. if a particular shipment of thousands of components actually has a 3% rate of defects, what is the probability that this whole shipment will be accepted?
a) 0.9580
b) 0.0348
c) 0.1408
d) 0.5051