As More and More Old Cars Are Taken Off the Road

question 72

Multiple Choice

As more and more old cars are taken off the road and replaced by late models that use unleaded fuel, the consumption of leaded gasoline will continue to drop. Suppose the transition matrix L UL describes this Markov process, where L denotes leaded gasoline and UL denotes unleaded gasoline.
Rewrite the matrix A so that the absorbing states appear first, and identify the submatrices R and S.

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