Instruction 5-8 a Major Airline Keeps a Record of the Number of Number

question 135

Multiple Choice

Instruction 5-8
A major airline keeps a record of the number of mishandled bags per 1,000 customers.In 2011,the airline had 4.06 mishandled bags per 1,000 customers.Assume that the number of mishandled bags has a Poisson distribution.
-What type of probability distribution will most likely be used to analyse the number of cars with defective radios in the following problem? From an inventory of 48 new cars being shipped to local dealerships,corporate reports indicate that 12 have defective radios installed.The sales manager of one dealership wants to predict the probability out of the 8 new cars it just received that,when each is tested,no more than 2 of the cars have defective radios.

• A)Binomial distribution.
• B)Poisson distribution.
• C)Hypergeometric distribution.
• D)None of the above.

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