Flights approaching major airports in the US during peak hours often experience delays in landing due to air traffic congestion. You will often hear announcements from the pilot that sound like this - “… we expect to land at 5:25PM subject to air traffic delays”. Assume that flights flying in to an airport during peak hours are subject to delays that are uniformly distributed between 10 and 45 minutes. [Be sure to show your calculations for parts (b) through (f).] a. Draw the probability distribution of air traffic delay. b. What is the expected value of air traffic delay? c. What is the probability that the flight will be delayed within ± one standard deviation of the mean? d. What is the probability that a flight will be delayed less than 15 minutes or more than 35 minutes?

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Flights approaching major airports in the US during peak hours often experience delays in landing due to air traffic congestion. You will often hear announcements from the pilot that sound like this - “… we expect to land at 5:25PM subject to air traffic delays”. Assume that flights flying in to an airport during peak hours are subject to delays that are uniformly distributed between 10 and 45 minutes. [Be sure to show your calculations for parts (b) through (f).]

a. Draw the probability distribution of air traffic delay.

b. What is the expected value of air traffic delay?

c. What is the probability that the flight will be delayed within ± one standard deviation of the mean?

d. What is the probability that a flight will be delayed less than 15 minutes or more than 35 minutes?

e. A flight has already been delayed for 25 minutes. What is the probability it will be delayed no more than 5 more minutes?

f. Does the empirical rule apply to this distribution? Why or why not?

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