The life of a certain type of device has an exponentially distributed failure with rate .008 per day. a) What is the mean time to failure? b) What is the probability that 200 days will pass before a failure is observed? c) What is the probability that 4 of the next 6 failures observed will occur after 200 days have passed? d) What is the probability that at most 3 failures will occur in 200 days

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Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability
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Problem 11ECP: A manufacturer has determined that a machine averages one faulty unit for every 500 it produces....
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  1. The life of a certain type of device has an exponentially distributed failure with rate .008 per day.
    a) What is the mean time to failure?
  2. b) What is the probability that 200 days will pass before a failure is observed?
  3. c) What is the probability that 4 of the next 6 failures observed will occur after 200 days have
    passed?
  4. d) What is the probability that at most 3 failures will occur in 200 days?

 

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