SOLUTION: Two hundred and fifty passenger have mad reservations for airplane flight. If the probability that a passenger who has a reservation show up is 0.98. what is the exactly five that

Question 1163265: Two hundred and fifty passenger have mad reservations for airplane flight. If the probability that a passenger who has a reservation show up is 0.98. what is the exactly five that will not show up?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It is   =  = 0.1772.    ANSWER


It is a binomial distribution problem 

with the number of trials n = 250 and the number of success trials of 245 = 250-5.

Solved.

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