In an office complex of 1110 employees, on any given day some are at work and the rest are absent. It is known that if an employee is at work today, there is an 77% chance that she will be at work tomorrow, and if the employee is absent today, there is a 54% chance that she will be absent tomorrow. Suppose that today there are 854 emplovees at work. Find the steady-state vector. (Note that the sum of the entries must be the total number of employees, but make sure that your answers are correct to at least 1 decimal place.)

In an office complex of 1110 employees, on any given day some are at work and the rest are absent. It is known that if an employee is at work today, there is an 77% chance that she will be at work tomorrow, and if the employee is absent today, there is a 54% chance that she will be absent tomorrow. Suppose that today there are 854 emplovees at work. Find the steady-state vector. (Note that the sum of the entries must be the total number of employees, but make sure that your answers are correct to at least 1 decimal place.)

Calculus For The Life Sciences

2nd Edition

ISBN:9780321964038

Author:GREENWELL, Raymond N., RITCHEY, Nathan P., Lial, Margaret L.

Publisher:GREENWELL, Raymond N., RITCHEY, Nathan P., Lial, Margaret L.

Chapter1: Functions

Section1.EA: Extended Application Using Extrapolation To Predict Life Expectancy

Problem 8EA

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