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7.3 Exercise 6

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A manufacturing plant has 350 special lamps on its production lines. On any day, each lamp could fail with probability p=0.0017p = 0 . 0017. These lamps are critical, and must be replaced as quickly as possible. It takes about one hour to replace a lamp, once it has failed. What is the probability that on any day the loss of production time due to lamp failaures is k or fewer hours, k=0,1,2,3,4,5?k = 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ?

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 7.3 Problems on Distribution and Density Functions, exercise 6

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