You Have Worked for the Department of Administrative Affairs (DAA)

question 52

Multiple Choice

You have worked for the Department of Administrative Affairs (DAA) for 27 years, and you still have little or no idea exactly what your job entails. To make your life a little more interesting, you have decided on the following course of action. Every Friday afternoon, you will use your desktop computer to generate a random digit from 0 to 9 (inclusive) . If the digit is a eight or greater, you will immediately quit your job, never to return. Otherwise, you will return to work the following Monday. What is the probability that you will still be employed by the DAA after each of the next three weeks ?

• A)0.992
• B) 0.64
• C) 0.512
• D) 1
• E) 0.8

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