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A company makes parachutes which it claims are safer because each parachute has a backup. The company states that the probability that the main parachute

A company makes parachutes which it claims are safer because each parachute has a backup. The company states that the probability that the main parachute fails to open is 0.002. It also says that the probability the the backup parachute will fail to open, given that the main parachute has filed to open, is 0.01. What is the probability that both the main and the backup parachute fail

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