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Four airplanes carrying a total of 400 passengersarrive at the detroit airport. the airplanes carry, respectively,50, 80, 110, and 160 passengers.a) one of the 400 passengers is selected uniformly at random.let x denote the number of passengers that were on theairplane carrying the randomly selected passenger. find var(x)for x as given in the problemb) one of the 4 airplane drivers is also selected uniformly atrandom. let y denote the number of passengers on the chosen driver’s airplane. find var(y) for y as given in the problem

How do you use the elimination method for this question? explain, because i really want to understand!

Savannah is painting a striped background for a mural on a wall that is 1515 yards long. she wants a total of 9696 stripes that are all the same width. which calculation should savannah use to decide how wide to make each stripe?