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scotchpie
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I am currently studying for a business qualification I am stumbling over a question.
It concerns calculating failure rate. The equation I know for this involves knowing the number of failures over a given time.
However the question is: "A device has a reliability of 0.8 over 2000 hours, calculate the failure rate."
How can I firstly work out the number of failures from this? It doesn't give any other information, ie total sample size etc. just the reliability over 2000 hours.
It's a bit of a killer as the next questions refer to MTBF (mean time between failures) and MTTF (mean time to failure) but I need to know the failure rate first before I can tackle these questions which I am confident in answering once the failure rate has been determined.
Thanks
Andrew
It concerns calculating failure rate. The equation I know for this involves knowing the number of failures over a given time.
However the question is: "A device has a reliability of 0.8 over 2000 hours, calculate the failure rate."
How can I firstly work out the number of failures from this? It doesn't give any other information, ie total sample size etc. just the reliability over 2000 hours.
It's a bit of a killer as the next questions refer to MTBF (mean time between failures) and MTTF (mean time to failure) but I need to know the failure rate first before I can tackle these questions which I am confident in answering once the failure rate has been determined.
Thanks
Andrew