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A system has components connected in active parallel. At least n - 1 of the components must operate for the system to function properly. Suppose the time to failure of each component has an…

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System Reliability

Question

A system has components connected in active parallel. At least n - 1 of the components must operate for the system to function properly. Suppose the time to failure of each component has an exponential distribution with the same failure rate . The mean time to failure of this system is:

Options

  • A(2n - 1)/n(n - 1) .
  • B1/(n - 1)
  • C2/(n - 1)
  • D(n - 1)/n 2

How the community answered

(67 responses)
  • A
    72% (48)
  • B
    6% (4)
  • C
    7% (5)
  • D
    15% (10)

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#active parallel system#MTTF formula#exponential distribution#redundancy math

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