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

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answer: 204

step-by-step explanation:

we are told that the revenue is

x⋅(4080−10x)=−10x^2+4080x

this is a quadratic function, so to maximize it we should find the x-value of its vertex. recall that the x-value of the vertex of the parabola ax^2+bx+c is given by the formula −b/2a.

so in this case, we have a=−10 and b=4080, so the x-value of the vertex is

−b/2a= −(4080)/2(−10)=204