An airline makes 200 reservations for a flight that holds 185 passengers. The probability that a passenger

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An airline makes 200 reservations for a flight that holds 185 passengers. The probability that a passenger arrives for the flight is 0.9 and the passengers are assumed to be independent.
(a) Approximate the probability that all the passengers that arrive can be seated.
(b) Approximate the probability that there are empty seats.
(c) Approximate the number of reservations that the airline should make so that the probability that everyone who arrives can be seated is 0.95. [Hint: Successively try values for the number of reservations.]
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Applied Statistics And Probability For Engineers

ISBN: 9781118539712

6th Edition

Authors: Douglas C. Montgomery, George C. Runger

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