?Redundancy. Exercises 25 and 26 involve redundancy.Redundancy in Hospital Generators

Chapter 4, Problem 26

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Redundancy. Exercises 25 and 26 involve redundancy.

Redundancy in Hospital Generators Hospitals typically require backup genera- tors to provide electricity in the event of a power outage. Assume that emergency backup  generators fail 22% of the times when they are needed (based on data from Arshad Mansoor, senior vice president with the Electric Power Research Institute). A hospital has two backup generators so that power is available if one of them fails during a power outage.

a. Find the probability that both generators fail during a power outage.

b. Find the probability of having a working generator in the event of a power outage. Is that probability high enough for the hospital?

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