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Computers on the Blink

A university computer room has 30 terminals. Each day there is a 3% chance that a given terminal will break and a 72% chance that that a given broken terminal will be repaired. Assuming that the fates of the various terminals are independent, in the long run what is the distribution of the number of terminals that are broken ?

 

 

[Durrett “Elementary Probability” p. 155 # 24]

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