Bluewater Ferries operates a service with \(180\) passenger seats. To reduce the number of empty seats, the company may accept more reservations than the number of seats available.
Each reservation costs \(\$72\) and is non-refundable. Past records show that a reservation holder does not attend with probability \(0.07\). If more than \(180\) reservation holders attend, the company pays \(\$320\) in compensation to each passenger who is unable to board.
Assume that reservation holders attend independently and that the attendance probability is the same for every reservation. For a particular crossing, the company accepts \(190\) reservations. Let \(X\) denote the number of reservation holders who attend.
Suppose instead that the company accepts \(n\) reservations, where \(n>180\), and let \(X\sim\mathrm{B}(n,0.93)\).
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