Engineering Board Exam Reviewer · Engineering Management · hard
A system has three components in series, each with a reliability of 0.95. What is the system reliability?
- 0.9500
- 0.9999
- 0.8574
- 0.8500
Answer
C. 0.8574
Solution
Rs = R1R2R3 = 0.953 = 0.8574.
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