A small regional carrier accepted 20 reservations for a particular flight with 17 seats. 13 reservations...

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A small regional carrier accepted 20 reservations for aparticular flight with 17 seats. 13 reservations went to regularcustomers who will arrive for the flight. Each of the remainingpassengers will arrive for the flight with a 40% chance,independently of each other.
Find the probability that overbooking occurs.
Find the probability that the flight has empty seats.
Assume that a procedure yields a binomial distribution with atrial repeated n=5n=5 times. Use some form of technology to findthe probability distribution given the probability p=0.299p=0.299of success on a single trial.
(Report answers accurate to 4 decimal places.)
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1 total seats17 seats reserved 13 remaining passengers 2013 7 probability that overbooking occurs Pout of 7 passenger more than 4 passenger arrive PX5 PX6 PX7 See Answer

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