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When water is drained from a pool, the water level h in it varies depending on the time t according to the function h(t)=at2+bt+c, and at the time t0 of when the draining is ending, the equalities h(t0)=h(t0)=0 are satisfied. For how many hours does the pool drain completely, if in the first hour the water level in it is reduced by half?

Hercules meets the three-headed snake Hydra of Lerna. Every minute, Hercules chops off one head of the snake. Let x be the survivability of the snake (x>0). The probability ps of the fact that in the place of the severed head will grow s new heads (s=0,1,2) is equal to xs1+x+x2.

During the first 10 minutes of the battle, Hercules recorded how many heads grew in place of each chopped off one. The following vector was obtained: K=(1,2,2,1,0,2,1,0,1,2). Find the value of the survivability of the snake, under which the probability of the vector K is greatest.