Solve the problem.
-What do you conclude about the claim below? Do not use formal procedures or exact calculations. Use only the rare event rule and make a subjective estimate to determine whether the event is likely. Claim: An employee of a company is equally likely to take a sick day on any day of the week. Last year, the total number of sick days taken by all the employees of the company was 143. Of these, 52 were Mondays, 14 were Tuesdays, 17 were Wednesdays, 17 were Thursdays, and 43 were Fridays.

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The Answer is If the employees were equally likely to take sick days on any day of the week, the probability of
obtaining such a distribution of sick days would be extremely small. Therefore, by the rare event rule, we
conclude that the claim that an employee of the company is equally likely to take a sick day on any day of
the week is probably not correct.

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