Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH103/April 2005/Question 06 (c)
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A CT scanner in a hospital is switched on every morning and switched off at night. The scanner has a probability of failure when the technician turns it on in the morning. (Assume that if it turns on, it will not fail later that day i.e. treat this as a discrete event. Also assume that failure is independent of age or history of the machine.) (c) Use the properties of an infinite geometric series to obtain the summation formula given in part (b):
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