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An airline estimates that 80% of passengers who reserve thetickets actually show up for the flights. Based on thisinformation, it has to decide how many tickets it will sell foreach flight, which is typically more than the number of seatsactually available. In the economy section of a particularaircraft, 200 seats are available. The airline sells 225 seats.What is the probability that more passengers will show up thanthere are seats for?

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The same can be modeled as a Binomial distribution as we havepassengers either turning up or not turning upPlease note Binomial Probability nCx px qnx where n number of trials andx is the number of successesHere    See Answer
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