SOLUTION: An airline estimates with probability of 0.05 a passenger who bought a ticket won't show up for the flight. The plane can carry 100 passengers, and the airline sells 102 tickets.
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Question 444707: An airline estimates with probability of 0.05 a passenger who bought a ticket won't show up for the flight. The plane can carry 100 passengers, and the airline sells 102 tickets.
What is the probability that exactly 101 passengers show up to take the flight?
Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let p=.95 and q=.05
102C101*p^101*q The 101 term of the expansion of the binomial (q+p)^102
=.0287
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Ed
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