A School Is Being Designed with Three Identical Building-Wide Fire

question 31

Essay

A school is being designed with three identical building-wide fire alarm systems.The reliability of each fire alarm system is 0.995.Should the fire alarm systems be placed in series,parallel,or in a series-parallel combination? Defend your recommendation using a system reliability analysis.

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