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A corporate executive officer is attempting to arrange a meeting of his three vice presidents for
tomorrow morning. He believes that each of these three busy persons, independently of the others,
has about a 60% chance of being able to attend the meeting. If the meeting will be held tomorrow
morning only if everyone can attend, what is the probability that the meeting will take place at that
time?

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The solution provides step by step method for the calculation of probability . Formula for the calculation and Interpretations of the results are also included.

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