Freezco sells refrigerators. Any refrigerator that fails before it is three years old is replaced free. Of

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Freezco sells refrigerators. Any refrigerator that fails before it is three years old is replaced free. Of all refrigerators, 3% fail during their first year of operation;

5% of all one-year-old refrigerators fail during their second year of operation; and 7% of all two-year-old refrigerators fail during their third year of operation.

a. Estimate the fraction of all refrigerators that will have to be replaced.

b. It costs $500 to replace a refrigerator, and Freezco sells 10,000 refrigerators per year. If the warranty period were reduced to 2 years, how much per year in replacement costs would be saved?

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Practical Management Science, Revised

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Authors: Wayne L Winston, S. Christian Albright

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