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Question 1115609: John will be staying with his grandparents for a week. There are four flights that leave the airport near johns home that connect to an airport that has two different flights to his grandparents hometown. Find the number of possible flights. Then find the probability of taking the earliest flight from each airport if the flight is selected at random
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John will be staying with his grandparents for a week. There are four flights that leave the airport near johns home that connect to an airport that has two different flights to his grandparents hometown.
Find the number of possible flights.
Ans:: 4*2 = 8
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Then find the probability of taking the earliest flight from each airport if the flight is selected at random
Ans: (1/4)(1/2) = 1/8
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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