Daily Airlines flies from Amsterdam to Londonevery day. The price of a ticket for this extremelypopular flight route is $75. The aircraft has apassenger capacity of 150. The airlinemanagement has made it a policy to sell 160tickets for this flight in order to protectthemselves against no-show passengers.Experience has shown that the probability of apassenger being a no-show is equal to 0.1. Thebooked passengers act independently of eachother. Given this overbooking strategy, what isthe probability that some passengers will haveto be bumped from the flight?

Given: Sample size for number of tickets sold (n) = 160 Seats in the flight = 150 Probability of no…

Answered: Daily Airlines flies from Amsterdam to…

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