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A doctor knows from experience that 20% of the patients to whom he gives a high blood pressure drug will have undesirable side effects. Assume the doctor gives that drug to ten of his patients. Find the probability that among the ten patients to whom he gives the drug, at most two will have undesirable side effects.

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