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Quality Control A manufacturer of precise measuring devices carefully tests each device manufactured. Seventy percent of all newly manufactured devices are approved, 20% are sent back to be recalibrated, and 10% are determined to be beyond repair and are destroyed. Eighty percent of the devices that have been recalibrated are approved, 10% are sent back to be recalibrated again, and 10% are destroyed. Therefore, the four states of a devices are New, Approved, Recalibrated, and Destroyed.
a. Set up the
b. Find the stable matrix.
c. Determine the probability that a New device will eventually be Approved.
d. Determine the expected number of times a New device will be tested.
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