Front end loads: a) Are disguised as 12b-1 fees b) Are paid to the mutual fund company after you have held the fund for a long time and you are ready to sell the fund to get your investment back c) Can be compared between different mutual funds by adding the expense ratio and the 12b-1 fee that you find in the prospectus d) Are paid to the mutual fund company when you first purchase the fund

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1