SOLUTION: A ship can successfully arrive at its destination if it engine and satellite navigation system do not fail en route. If the engine and navigation system are known to fail indepen

Question 327966: A ship can successfully arrive at its destination if it engine and satellite
navigation system do not fail en route. If the engine and navigation system are known to fail independently with respective probabilities of 0.05 and 0.001,what is he probability of a successful arrival?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
P=P(engines don't fail)*P(nav doesn't fail)

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