Loose-leaf For Applied Statistics In Business And Economics

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ISBN: 9781259328527

Author: David Doane, Lori Seward Senior Instructor of Operations Management

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Chapter 6.5, Problem 45SE

The probability that a passenger's bag will be mishandled on a U.S. airline is .0046. During spring break, suppose that 500 students fly from Minnesota to various southern destinations, (a) What is the expected number of mishandled bags? (b) What is the approximate probability of no mishandled bags? More than two? (c) Would you expect the approximation to be accurate (cite a rule of thumb)?

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Loose-leaf For Applied Statistics In Business And Economics

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Solution Summary: The author calculates that the probability of mishandled passenger’s bag in U.S. airline is 0.0046. The Poisson distribution may be used to approximately binomial distribution.

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