Airline Inc. overbooks its flights to account for the possibility of passengers

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Airline Inc. overbooks its flights to account for the possibility of passengers not showing up for the flights. On its 200 seat airplanes it will take reservations for up to 210 passengers. Past data suggests that the number of reservations made for each flight is a uniformly distributed random variables taking on values between 190 and 210. The number of no-shows for each flight ranges from 0 to 10, with probabilities given in the below table. Develop a simulation of this situation and run it 500 times. Determine the average number of seats used per flight and the probabilities that 201, 202, 203,...,210 passengers show up for a flight (in other

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Simulation Cant be run

But average number of seats used by flight

No Show Prob. No Show* Prob 0 0.3 0 1 0.15 0.15 2 0.14 0.28 3 0.11 0.33 4 0.1 0.4 5 0.08 0.4 6 0.05 0.3 7 0.03 0.21 8 0.02 0.16 9 0.015 0.135 10 0.005 0.05 avg=0.2195

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