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Six new employees, two of whom are married to each other, are to be assigned six desks that are lined up in a row. If the assignment of employees to desks is made randomly, what is the probability that the married couple will have nonadjacent desks?

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Given: total no. of employees = 6
They can be arranged in 6 ways,
Thus, `n(S) = 6!`
` = 6 xx 5 xx 4 xx 3 xx 1 ...
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