1. Suppose instead that a flight has 58 seats and the likelihood of a person not...

1. Suppose instead that a flight has 58 seats and the likelihood of a person not showing up is 9%. The airline sells 62 tickets.

a) What is the likelihood the flight is overbooked?

b) In order to do this problem using the binomial random variable we have to assume that people are acting ________________ from one another. Is this realistic? Why or why not?

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