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A particular airline has 10:00 a.m. flights from San Francisco to New York, Atlanta, and Miami. The probabilities that each flight is full are 0.60, 0.40, and 0.50 respectively, and each flight is independent one another.
a) What is the probability that all flights are full?
b) What is the probability that only the New York flight is full?
c) What is the probability that exactly one flight is full?

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Let A, B and C respectively be the events that the New York, Atlanta, and Miami flights are full.

Given that P (A) = 0.60, P (B) = 0.40, P (C) = 0.50

a) P (all flights are full) = P (A) * P ...

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