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33) All manufactured devices and machines fail to work sooner
or later. Suppose that the failure...
33) All manufactured devices and machines fail to work sooner
or later. Suppose that the failure rate is constant and the time to
failure (in hours) is an exponential r.v. X with parameter λ.
Measurements show that the probability that the time to failure for
computer memory chips in a given class exceeds 104 hours is e-1 ≈
(0.368).
a) Calculate the value of the parameter λ.
b) Using the value of the parameter λ determined in part (a),
calculate the time t, such
that the probability that the time to failure is less than t,
is 0.05.