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Supply Safety Margin
Supply pressure needed for your target margin
Required supply pressure
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Cushion above demand—
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The margin is a percentage of the supply, not the demand: supply = demand ÷ (1 − margin). Adding 10% of the demand comes up short — it only yields a 9.1% cushion of the resulting supply. Flow doesn't enter the math; the margin applies to pressure at the demand flow point.