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Repairing of a machine consists of 5 steps that must be performed sequentially. Time taken to perform each of the 5 steps is found to have an exponential distribution with of mean of 5 minutes and is independent of other steps. If these machines break down in Poisson fashion at an average rate of 2/hour and if there is only one repairman, the average idle time for each machine that has broken down will be

A. 120 minutes
B. 110 minutes
C. 100 minutes
D. 90 minutes
Answer» B. 110 minutes


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