An office of six people is plagued by high absenteeism.It is thought that the probability that an employee is absent on a particular day is 0.03.Assuming that the event that one person is absent on a particular day is independent of the absence of any other employee,what is the probability that at least one employee is absent tomorrow?

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The probability of at least one employee being absent can be calculated using the complement rule as follows:

P(at least one absent) = 1 - P(no one absent)

P(no one absent) = (1-0.03)^6 = 0.8483

P(at least one absent) = 1-0.8483 = 0.1517 or approximately 0.167 (rounded to three decimal places)

Therefore, the best choice is D.

An Office of Six People Is Plagued by High Absenteeism