Question 1 Foundation
If , find .
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. The event either happens or it does not.
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. The event either happens or it does not.
Answer. The probability that occurs, or occurs, or both.
The union is inclusive — it covers the case where both events happen.
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For independent events .
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. The subtraction removes the double-counted overlap.
Answer. If one occurs the other cannot, so knowing one changes the other's probability to 0.
, so independence fails. Mutually exclusive and independent are opposite ideas, not similar ones.
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Use the complement: , so the answer is .