The Appliance Parts Company manufactures small motors used in various household appliances. Extensive reliability testing has determined that the failure distribution of these motors is gamma with a shape parameter of 1.7 and a scale parameter of 10,000 (operating) hr. Find

(a) TheMTTF

(b) The standard deviation

(c) The median time to failure

(d) The mode

(e) The 9S-percent design life

(f) The reliability at SOOO hr and the reliability at 6000 hr given it has survived to SOOO hr

(g) The characterization of the hazard rate function

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