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A series system whose reliability at 5 hours is 0.80, has three components with these historical constant failure rates: 1 = failure rate for component 1 = 0.04 failures/hour 2 = failure rate for…

The correct answer is A. 0.9123. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

System Reliability

Question

A series system whose reliability at 5 hours is 0.80, has three components with these historical constant failure rates:

1 = failure rate for component 1 = 0.04 failures/hour 2 = failure rate for component 2 = 0.07 failures/hour 3 = failure rate for component 3 = 0.01 failures/hour Three of the four answers are the three component reliabilities at 5 hours. Which is incorrect?

Options

  • A0.9123
  • B0.9283
  • C0.8780
  • D0.9816

How the community answered

(60 responses)
  • A
    72% (43)
  • B
    17% (10)
  • C
    3% (2)
  • D
    8% (5)

Topics

#series system#component reliability#exponential distribution#failure rate

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