Maximizing Team Collaboration: Odds of Receiving Assistance During Meetings

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In summary, a person from the IT department needed help with a project and reached out to three individuals who were all in meetings at the time. One of the team members responded later and questioned the likelihood of all three individuals being unavailable. The person then asked a question about the odds of this situation occurring.
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Greetings, I work in the IT dept of a large organization - yesterday I needed help with a Project. 3 people in my group (my group is a subset of the organization, the other subsets are unrelated functions) are familiar with a particular piece of hardware related to the Project, and were all in meetings when I reached out to them. A member of the Team I reached out to responded later with the remark..."Wow! you needed help when we were all in a meeting?...what are the odds of that happening?

My question is : should the answer be the 3/(Total number of employees in org) = (3/@1000) * 100 = 0.3% or 100-(1/(number of employees expected to know about the project)) = 1/3 * 100 = 66.7% or is it a more complex dependency.

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