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CRE · Question #116
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)- A72% (43)
- B17% (10)
- C3% (2)
- D8% (5)
Topics
#series system#component reliability#exponential distribution#failure rate
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