A product is made up of six components They are wired in ser

A product is made up of six components. They are wired in series with reliabilities of .95, .98, .94, .96, .98, and .97. What is the overall reliability for this product?

Solution

Series means that all 6 components need to work in order for the product to work, which has probability:

0.95*0.98*0.94*0.96*0.98*0.97 = 0.79863176064 = 0.7986

This is the overall reliability.