A certain airline sometimes overbooks flights for one of its small aircraft. For a randomly selected flight, let X represent the seating situation (1= overbook by one, 0=full and -1=empty seat). The probability distribution for X is: x -1 0 1 p(x) .15 .65 .20   d)How many standard deviations from the mean is the overbooked by one (x=1) situation? Hint SD(x)=.59

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A certain airline sometimes overbooks flights for one of its small aircraft. For a randomly selected flight, let X represent the seating situation (1= overbook by one, 0=full and -1=empty seat). The probability distribution for X is:

x -1 0 1
p(x) .15 .65 .20

 

d)How many standard deviations from the mean is the overbooked by one (x=1) situation? Hint SD(x)=.59

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