The probability that event A occurs is 0.4 and the probability that event B occurs is 0.8. What is the probability that event A occurs but not event B?
1) Event A and event B are independent.
2) The probability that neither event A nor event B occurs is 0.32.
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The probability that event A occurs is 0.4 and the probabili
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I'm confused. How can the probability that event b occurs be 0.8? This implies the probability that event B doesn't occur is 0.2. Yet, we're told in statement (2) that the probability that neither event A nor event B occurs be 0.32? How can the probability of NOT A AND NOT B be greater than the probability of NOT B alone?Max@Math Revolution wrote:The probability that event A occurs is 0.4 and the probability that event B occurs is 0.8. What is the probability that event A occurs but not event B?
1) Event A and event B are independent.
2) The probability that neither event A nor event B occurs is 0.32.
* The answer will be posted in two days.
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You only have to find out P(A∩B) in the original condition. Hence, there is only 1 variable, which means D is likely the answer. Using the condition 1) and the condition 2), we can see that the condition 1) is essentially the same as the condition 2) (1)=2)). So, the correct answer is D.
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