A restaurant needs at least one cook and at least one waitress to open. The owner hires three cooks and three waitresses, each of whom is equally likely to show up for work or call in sick. What is the probability that the restaurant will operate on a given day?

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A restaurant needs at least one cook and at least one waitress to open. The owner hires three cooks and three waitresses, each of whom is equally likely to show up for work or call in sick. What is the probability that the restaurant will operate on a given day?

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The event of non-occurrence of an event is called the complement of that event. In the example of tossing a coin, let an event is defined as the outcome to be heads. Then the complement of that event will be defined as the outcome will not be heads. In this case, the complementary event will be the outcome will be tails.

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