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On-Time Flights The U.S. Department of Transportation

Chapter 5, Problem 34BSC

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On-Time Flights The U.S. Department of Transportation recently reported that 80.5% of U.S. airline flights arrived on time. Find the probability that among 12 randomly selected flights, exactly 10 arrive on time. Does that probability apply to the author, who must make 12 flights originating in New York?

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On-Time Flights The U.S. Department of Transportation recently reported that 80.5% of U.S. airline flights arrived on time. Find the probability that among 12 randomly selected flights, exactly 10 arrive on time. Does that probability apply to the author, who must make 12 flights originating in New York?

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The binomial distribution is a probability distribution that describes the number of successes (usually denoted as "k") in a fixed number of independent and identical Bernoulli trials or experiments (i.e., trials with only two possible outcomes: success and failure). It is named after the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli.

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