Over the past school days

MATHEMATICS · Multi-part · AP · AP Statistics · Probability Random Variables Distributions · Probability Random Variables Distributions

Problem

Over the past 200200 school days, the school bus arrived on time on 130130 days. (i) Compute the empirical probability that the bus arrives on time on any given day. (ii) Using the result of part (i), calculate the probability that the bus does not arrive on time. (iii) Based on your answer in part (ii), estimate on how many of the next 250250 school days the bus is likely to be late. Present all working.

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