On the assessment of equipment reliability

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The lifetime X (in hundreds of hours) of a certain type of vacuum tube has a Weibull distribution with parameters α= 2 and ß =3. Compute the following:

This Weibull distribution is suggested as a model for time in service in "On the Assessment of Equipment Reliability: Trading Data Collection Costs for Precision," J. of Engr. Manuf., 1991: 105-109.)

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