A certain airport hotel operates a shuttle bus service between the hotel and the airport. The maximum capacity of a bus is 20 passengers. On alternate trips of the shuttle bus over a period of 1 wk, the hotel manager kept a record of the number of passengers arriving at the hotel in each bus. Describe the event E that a shuttle bus carried fewer than twelve passengers.
A) {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}
B) {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15}
C) {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}
D) {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}

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The event E is defined as the shuttle bus carrying fewer than 12 passengers. Since the maximum capacity of the bus is 20 passengers, any number of passengers between 0 and 11 (inclusive) would satisfy this event. Therefore, the set of possible outcomes for event E is {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}. The correct answer is D.

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