1. According to U.S. Department ofTransportation Data, in April of 2008, there w

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1.     According to U.S. Department ofTransportation Data, in April of 2008, there were 253,190complaints related to mishandling of baggage by U.S. Airlines.Mishandling includes lost, damaged, delayed or pilfered baggage.The same data set also shows a total of 50,755,213 enplanedpassengers during April 2008.

a.     Assuming that the April 2008 numbersare typical for U.S. Airlines, what is the probability that arandomly selected passenger would have his or her luggagemishandled by airlines? Round your answer to three significantdigits.

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The probability that a randomly selected passenger would havehis or her luggage mishandled by airlines Prob(randomly selected passenger would have his or her luggagemishandled by airlines ) =number of favourable cases / number of exhaustive cases =253190/50755213 =0.005

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