For independent survival times with cumulative distribution functions , the probability both components have failed by time is
The probability at least one has failed is
The first equality uses independence of random variables; the second applies it to the complementary event that both survive. These are the distributions of the two extreme order statistics.
Marginal distributions alone do not determine these probabilities. Without independence, the Fréchet inequalities give , and inclusion-exclusion gives .

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