The employees of a company work in six departments: 31 are in sales, 54 are in research, 42 are in marketing, 20 are in engineering, 47 are in finance, and 58 are in production. The payroll department loses one employee's paycheck. What is the probability that the employee works in the research department?

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Answer:

[tex]\frac{3}{14}[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

There are 252 (=31+54+42+20+47+58) employees in total. 54 of those are in research. So the chances that one check that gets lost belongs to a research employee can be calculated as follows:

[tex]P=\frac{54}{252}= \frac{3}{14}[/tex]