XYZ Inc Hires Only Retired People for Its Greeter's Job

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XYZ Inc. hires only retired people for its greeter's job. They always start on January 1 and are considered for promotion every January 1st thereafter. On every January 1st, any existing greeter (state G) those who were greeters last year - may be retired (state R) , may be dead (sate D) , may continue as a greeter (state G) , or may be promoted as greeter -in-chief (state GIC) . Persons in state GIC may continue in it or move to states D or R in one year. The following is the transition matrix. While trying to find the probability of eventual absorption in the absorbing states, Matrix R for this problem is:

A) See A Above
B) See B Above
C) See C Above
D) See D Above