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Problem 5

 

Some components in a car are critically important. If one or more of these critically important components fails, the car will not run. Let's imagine that there are only 10 such critical components in a car. If each critical component has a 0.95 (95%) probability of working properly, calculate the probability of the car not running due to a failure of one or more of these critical components.

 

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