Freezco, Inc., sells refrigerators. The company has issued a warranty on all refrigerators that requires free replacement of any refrigerator that fails before it is three years old. We are given the following information: (1) 3% of all new refrigerators fail during their first year of operation; (2) 5% of all one-year-old refrigerators fail during their second year of operation; and (3) 7% of all two-year-old refrigerators fail during their third year of operation. A replacement refrigerator is not covered by the warranty.
a. Use Markov chain theory to predict the fraction of all refrigerators that Freezco will have to replace.
b. Suppose that it costs Freezco $500 to replace a refrigerator and that Freezco sells 10,000 refrigerators per year. If the company reduced the warranty period to two years, how much money in replacement costs would be saved?
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