Suppose that the probability that a passenger will miss a flight is 0.0937. Airlines do not like flights with empty​ sea

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Suppose that the probability that a passenger will miss a flight is 0.0937. Airlines do not like flights with empty​ sea

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Suppose that the probability that a passenger will miss a flight
is 0.0937. Airlines do not like flights with
empty​ seats, but it is also not desirable to have overbooked
flights because passengers must be​ "bumped" from the flight.
Suppose that an airplane has a seating capacity
of 54 passengers.
​(a) If 56 tickets are​ sold, what is the
probability that 55 or 56 passengers show up
for the flight resulting in an overbooked​ flight?
​(b) Suppose that 60 tickets are sold. What is the
probability that a passenger will have to be​ "bumped"?
​(c) For a plane with seating capacity
of 290 ​passengers, what is the largest number of tickets
that can be sold to keep the probability of a passenger
being​ "bumped" below1​%?
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