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.)
