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sergejj [24]
3 years ago
9

A communications circuit is known to have an availability of 0.99 (that is, 99% of the time, the circuit is operational). A tota

l of n such circuits are going to be set up by the FAA between San Francisco and Los Angeles in such a way that the circuits will fail indepen- dently of each other. How many such parallel circuits must be set up to attain an overall availabililty of 0.99999
Mathematics
1 answer:
sukhopar [10]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

Assume that for the communication to be available means that at least one of the n circuits is operational. It would take at least 3 circuits to achieve a 0.99999 overall availability.

Step-by-step explanation:

The probability that one circuit is not working is 1 - 0.99 = 0.01.

Since the circuits here are all independent of each other, the probability that none of them is working would be \displaystyle \underbrace{0.01 \times 0.01 \times \cdots \times 0.01}_{\text{$n$ times}}. That's the same as 0.01^n.

The event that at least one of the n circuits is working is the complement of the event that none of them is working. To find the probability that at least one of the n circuits is working, simply subtract the probability that none of the circuit is working from one. That is:

\begin{aligned}&P(\text{At least one working}) \cr &= 1 - P(\text{None is working}) \cr &= 1- 0.01^n\end{aligned}.

The question requests that

P(\text{At least one working}) \ge 0.99999.

In other words,

1- 0.01^n \ge 0.99999.

0.01^n \le 1 - 0.99999 = 0.000001 = 10^{-6}.

Note that 0.01 = 10^{-2}. Hence, the inequality becomes

\left(10^{-2}\right)^n \le 10^{-6}.

10^{-2\,n} \le 10^{-6}

Take the natural log of both sides of the equation:

\ln\left(10^{-2\, n}\right) \le \ln \left(10^{-6}\right).

(-2\, n)\ln\left(10\right) \le (-6) \ln\left(10\right).

10 > 1, hence \ln(10) > 0. Divide both sides by \ln(10):

-2\,n \le -6.

n \ge 3.

In other words, at least three parallel circuits must be set up to achieve that availability.

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