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Flight times The pilot suspects that the Dubai-to-Doha outbound flight typically takes longer. If so, the difference (Outbound−Return) in flight times will be positive on more days than it is negative. What if either flight is equally likely to take longer? Then we can model the outcome on a randomly selected day with a coin toss. Heads means the Dubai-to-Doha outbound flight lasts longer; tails means the Doha-to-Dubai return flight lasts longer. To imitate a random sample of 12days, imagine tossing a fair coin 12times.

a. Find the probability of getting 11or more heads in 12tosses of a fair coin.

b. The outbound flight took longer on 11of the 12days. Based on your result in part (a), what conclusion would you make about the Emirates pilot’s suspicion?

Short Answer

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Part(a) The probability of getting 11more heads in 12tosses of fair coin is 0.31%

Part(b) This concludes that there is strong evidence that outbound flights from Dubai to Doha take longer on average.

Step by step solution

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Part(a) Step 1 : Given information

We need to find probability of getting 11or more heads in 12 times.

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Part(a) Step 2 : Simplify

As we know, the bionomial probability is :

P(X=k)=Ckn×pk×(1-p)n-k n=12p=0.5P(X=11)=C1112×0.511×(1-0.5)12-11=0.0029P(X=12)=C1212×0.512×(1-0.5)12-12=0.0002

Using, addition rule,

P(X≥11)=P(X=11)+P(X=12)=0.0029+0.0002=0.31%

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Part(b) Step 1 : Given information

We need to conclude that what to make about the Emirates pilot’s suspicion.

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Part(b) Step 2 : Simplify

The chance is 0.0031, according to section (a).
And the pilot wants to know if outbound flights from Dubai to Doha are normally lengthier.
Then, based on the finding in part (a), we conclude that the likelihood is minimal, implying that at least 11of the 12 days were spent on an outward journey that took longer when both the outbound and return flights were equally likely to take longer.
This suggests that there is strong evidence that outbound flights from Dubai to Doha take longer on average.

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