An article in Fire Technology, 2014 (50.3) studied the effectiveness of sprinklers in fire control by the number of sprinklers that activate correctly. The researchers estimate the probability of a sprinkler to activate correctly to be 0.7. Suppose that you are an inspector hired to write a safety report for a large ballroom with 10 sprinklers. Assume the sprinklers activate correctly or not independently.

What is the probability that all of the sprinklers will operate correctly in a fire?

2.82% probability that all of the sprinklers will operate correctly in a fire

Step-by-step explanation:

For each sprinkler, there are only two possible outcomes. Either they will operate correctly, or they will not. The probability of a sprinkler operating correctly is independent of other sprinklers. So we use the binomial probability distribution to solve this question.

Binomial probability distribution

The binomial probability is the probability of exactly x successes on n repeated trials, and X can only have two outcomes.

In which is the number of different combinations of x objects from a set of n elements, given by the following formula.

And p is the probability of X happening.

The researchers estimate the probability of a sprinkler to activate correctly to be 0.7.

This means that

10 sprinklers.

This means that

What is the probability that all of the sprinklers will operate correctly in a fire?

This is P(X = 10).

2.82% probability that all of the sprinklers will operate correctly in a fire

15.5

step-by-step explanation:

5

∑

n = 1

substitute n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and sum the terms

= + + + 2² + 2³

= 0.5 + 1 + 2 + 4 + 8

= 15.5

step-by-step explanation:

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