4.7. A system consists of three machines and two repairmen. At most two machines can operate at...

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4.7. A system consists of three machines and two repairmen. At most two machines can operate at any time. The amount of time that an operating machine works before breaking down is exponentially distributed with mean 5. The amount of time that it takes a single repairman to fix a machine is exponentially distributed with mean 4. Only one repairman can work on a failed machine at any given time. Let X(t) be the number of machines in operating condition at time t.

(a) Calculate the long run probability distribution for X(t).

(b) If an operating machine produces 100 units of output per hour, what is the long run output per hour of the system?

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An Introduction To Stochastic Modeling

ISBN: 9780126848878

3rd Edition

Authors: Samuel Karlin, Howard M. Taylor

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