SOLUTION: There is a desktop computer with 72 process cores. suppose the probability that a given processor core will crash in 120 hours of use is .003 and that the failures of the various p

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Question 1139144: There is a desktop computer with 72 process cores. suppose the probability that a given processor core will crash in 120 hours of use is .003 and that the failures of the various processor cores are independent of one another. what is the probability that no processor core will crash during the first 120 hours of use?
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This probability is  %281-0.003%29%5E72 = 0.997%5E72 = 0.8055 = 80.55%.