1. You would expect a bond of the U. S. government to pay interest rate as compared to a bond of an Eastern European government. You would expect a bond that repays the principal in year 2040 and a bond that repays the principal in year 2020 to pay different interest rates because of differences in the bonds'. 2. You would expect a bond from Coca-Cola to payinterest rate as compared to a bond from a software company you run in your garage.
3. You would expect a bond from a software company you run in your garage and a bond from Coca-Cola to pay different interest rates because of differences in the bonds’.
4. You would expect a bond issued by the federal government to payinterest rate as compared to a bond issued by New York State.

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