Calculate probability if an event would have had occured

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I need help in solving the following question:

A company is working on new type of airbags for cars. The old air bags, in case of accident, are known to fail at a rate of 23%. New air bags were tested on 230 cars and 10% of them failed. What is the probability that 10% of the 230 cars would have had failures with old bags?

I am not able to figure out what information is provided and what am I supposed to calculate like for the first piece of information, P(failure|old air bags) is given or P(failure, old air bags). How do you figure from sentences if conditional probability is given or probability of intersection of two things?

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You have been asked to find the probability that a count of 23 cars (among the 230) would have had failures when using old bags.

Hint: use binomial distribution as your model.

When X ~ Bin(230, 0.23), find P(X=23)