document.write( "Question 328782: An Airline in a small city has 5 departures each day. The local manager of the airline desire to make sure that the probability that all flights leave on time is 0.9. What is the largest probability of being late that the individual flights can have if the goal is to be achieved. Will the operation have to be improved significantly? \n" ); document.write( "

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For all the probability of all 5 flights being on time, the probability of each flight has to be
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\n" ); document.write( " $\"P=0.9%5E%281%2F5%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"P=0.979\"$
\n" ); document.write( "So then the probability of each flight being late is
\n" ); document.write( " $\"P=1-0.979=0.021\"$
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