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![B3. (a) The village of Sunnyridge has installed an array of 6 wind turbines.
The probability of any day being insufficiently windy for the turbines to operate
is found to be 0.3.
The probability on any day that any individual turbine needs to be shut down for
maintenance is found to be 0.1.
[You may assume that all probabilities are mutually independent]
A monitoring device is mounted upon one of the wind turbines.
(i) What is the probability that the monitored wind turbine operates on any
given day?
(ii) The monitored turbine is observed to be not operating. What is the proba-
bility that this turbine has been shut down for maintenance?
(iii) What is the probability that more than 2 of the 6 turbines are shut down for
maintenance on any particular day?
(iv) What is the probability that at least 4 turbines are operating on any particular
day?
(b) Sunnyridge decide to additionally install a solar energy plant.
From prior weather records, it is estimated that the number of hours per day of
sunshine at Sunnyridge S is a random variable that obeys a probability density
function
0≤s<2
½
fs(s) =
12 s
70
2≤8<12.
0
otherwise
(i) What is the probability of less than 4 hours of sunshine on any given day?
(ii) Find the mean and variance of the number of hours of daylight.
(iii) Find the probability of there being less than 1400 hours of sunshine in a year.](https://content.bartleby.com/qna-images/question/edbe235b-c463-4d5e-86ea-b00c026da828/0a3150b1-a576-46a3-98c6-8601ded2d8df/ao7bcd8_thumbnail.png)
Transcribed Image Text:B3. (a) The village of Sunnyridge has installed an array of 6 wind turbines.
The probability of any day being insufficiently windy for the turbines to operate
is found to be 0.3.
The probability on any day that any individual turbine needs to be shut down for
maintenance is found to be 0.1.
[You may assume that all probabilities are mutually independent]
A monitoring device is mounted upon one of the wind turbines.
(i) What is the probability that the monitored wind turbine operates on any
given day?
(ii) The monitored turbine is observed to be not operating. What is the proba-
bility that this turbine has been shut down for maintenance?
(iii) What is the probability that more than 2 of the 6 turbines are shut down for
maintenance on any particular day?
(iv) What is the probability that at least 4 turbines are operating on any particular
day?
(b) Sunnyridge decide to additionally install a solar energy plant.
From prior weather records, it is estimated that the number of hours per day of
sunshine at Sunnyridge S is a random variable that obeys a probability density
function
0≤s<2
½
fs(s) =
12 s
70
2≤8<12.
0
otherwise
(i) What is the probability of less than 4 hours of sunshine on any given day?
(ii) Find the mean and variance of the number of hours of daylight.
(iii) Find the probability of there being less than 1400 hours of sunshine in a year.
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