SOLUTION: . The daily consumption of aviation fuel in millions of gallons at a certain airport can be treated as a gamma random variable with parameters α = 5 and β = 2. Calculate the pro

Question 1193883: . The daily consumption of aviation fuel in millions of gallons at a certain airport can be treated as a
gamma random variable with parameters α = 5 and β = 2. Calculate the probability that on a given
day the fuel consumption will be less than 1 million gallons?
Answer by ikleyn(52865)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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For gamma-distribution use free of charge online calculator

https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~mbognar/applets/gamma.html

specially intended for this purpose.

Your parameters are    = 5   and    = 2,
x = 1   (which represents one million of gallons).

The calculator gives   P(x < 1) = 0.00017.             ANSWER

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