A Ground Wave Radar Unit Developed by a Defense Contractor

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Essay

A ground wave radar unit developed by a defense contractor has four critical components. If any one component should fail, the radar unit would be rendered ineffective. The component reliabilities are 0.982, 0.946, 0.913, and 0.969 respectively. Based on this data, answer the questions below.
a.What is the system reliability?
b.If the reliability of the third component is changed from 0.913 to 0.950, what does the system reliability become?
c.If the company decides to build in system redundancy for the third component, what does the third component's reliability become?
d.What is the system reliability with redundancy for the third component?

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