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Fortunately, suggested approach is very straightforward, fast and efficient to use in the real problems. To evaluate the suggested approach with the result of existing methods, six examples are presented. Finally, we apply this necessary condition for ranking fuzzy numbers to a fuzzy failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) problem. 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