SOLUTION: The U.S. Department of Transportation maintains statistics for mishandled bags per 1,000 airline passengers. In 2005, Jet Blue had on an average 4.06 mishandled bags per 1,000 pass

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Question 1172819: The U.S. Department of Transportation maintains statistics for mishandled bags per 1,000 airline passengers. In 2005, Jet Blue had on an average 4.06 mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers (extracted from M. Mullins, Out of Place, USA Today, March 24, 2006, p. 10A). What is the probability that in the next 1,000 passengers, Jet Blue will have no mishandled bags?
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Binomial Distribution

p = .00406   |Instructors generally have 'how many decimal points" they prefer to be used.  

binompdf(n, p, x-value).

P(0) = binompdf(1000, .00406, 0) = .0171

P(0) = binompdf(1000, .0041, 0) = .0164  |Demonstrates using 4 decimal points

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