Low Budget Air (LBA), historical data shows that 80% of all passengers show up in time to board. Therefore, they ...

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Low Budget Air (LBA), historical data shows that 80% of all passengers show up in time to board. Therefore, they occasionally over-book flights in hopes of filling each plane to capacity. Here we consider some probabilities associated with this type of issue. Suppose a small plane has a capacity of 15 passengers. They book 15 passengers for a flight on this plane.

(a) What is the probability that exactly 15 passengers show up? Round your answer to 3 decimal places.

(b) What is the probability that exactly 14 passengers show up? Round your answer to 3 decimal places.

(c) What is the probability that they will have at least one empty seat? Round your answer to 3 decimal places.

d) If only 9 passengers show up, would that be considered an unusually low number* of passengers?

Yes, that is an unusually low number of passengers.

No, that is not an unusually low number of passengers.    

(e) If only 8 passengers show up, would that be considered an unusually low number* of passengers?

Yes, that is an unusually low number of passengers.

No, that is not an unusually low number of passengers.  

    • 8 years ago
    n = 15, p = 0.80, q = 1 – p = 0.20; P(x) = C(n, x) p^x q^(n – x) ...
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