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Consider three identical items in parallel. What is the system reliability if each item has a reliability of 98%?

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Answer:

Reliability of system = 99.9992%

Step-by-step explanation:

Given Reliability of item = 98%

therefore probability of failure = 100%-98% =2%

For system in parallel the probability of failure is product of individual probabilities of items

thus


Probabilityfail_(system)=p_(1)* p_(2)* p_(3)\\\\Probabilityfail_(system)=0.02^(3)=0.000008\\\\Realibility_(system)=100- Probabilityfail_(system)\\\\Realibility_(system)=99.9992%

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