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

question 81

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.
-A financial analyst is presented with information on the past records of 60 start-up companies and told that in fact only 3 of them have managed to become highly successful.He selected 3 companies from this group as the candidates for success.To analyse his ability to identify the companies that will eventually become highly successful,he will use what type of probability distribution?

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

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