Chapter 5 A CD player has five components that all must function for the player to work. The average reliability of each component is 0.85. What is the reliability of the CD player? A jet engine has 10 components in series. The average reliability of each component is 0.995. What is the reliability of the engine? An office copier has four main components in a series with the following reliabilities: 0.89, 0.95, 0.90, and 0.80. Determine the reliability of the copier. BioTech Research Center is working to develop a new vaccine for the West Nile Virus. The project is so important that the firm has created three teams of experts to work on the project from different perspectives. Team 1 has a 90 percent chance of success, team 2 an 85 percent chance of success, and team 3 a 75 percent chance. What is the probability that BioTech will develop the vaccine