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A highway bridge is designed to just pass a discharge with an annual exceedance prob­abili...

A highway bridge is designed to just pass a discharge with an annual exceedance prob­ability of 0.020 without overtopping the roadway.

(a) Compute the probability that the bridge will be overtopped at least once during the next 10 years.


(b) Compute the probability that the bridge will be overtopped exactly one time dur­ing the next 10 years.


(c) Compute the probability that the bridge will be overtopped in 2 of the next 50 years

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