A memory hierarchy consists of the elements shown in the table below. Compute the average access time for this memory system.
| Component | Access Time | Capacity | Hit Rate |
| Hard drive | 10ms | 100Gbytes | 100% |
| Cache | 1ns | 512Kbytes |
95% |
| Main memory | 50ns |
512Mbytes |
90% |
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