Homework Help: Stats

Posted by Help please! on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 4:15pm.

Among 15,378 Delta airline passengers randomly selected, 3 were bumped from a flight against there wishes (based on data from the us dept of transportation) find the probability that a random selected passenger is involuntarily bumped. Is such bumping unusual? Does such bumping pose a serious problem for Delta passengers in general? why or why not? what is the method used to obtain the probability?

Stats - PsyDAG, Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 10:32am
3/15,378 = .0002

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