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Independent events
- Advanced 2012MathematicsMultiple correct
A ship is fitted with three engines , and . The engines function independently of each other with respective probabilities , and . For the ship to be operational at least two of its engines must function. Let denote the event that the ship is operational and let , and denote respectively the events that the engines , and are functioning. Which of the following is (are) true?
- Advanced 2012MathematicsMultiple correct
Let and be two events such that , and . Which of the following is (are) correct?
- Advanced 2011MathematicsMultiple correct
Let and be two independent events. The probability that exactly one of them occurs is and the probability of none of them occurring is . If denotes the probability of occurrence of the event , then
- Advanced 2009MathematicsSingle correct
The probability that equals
- Advanced 2009MathematicsSingle correct
The probability that equals
- Advanced 2009MathematicsSingle correct
The conditional probability that given equals
- Advanced 2008MathematicsSingle correct
An experiment has 10 equally likely outcomes. Let and be two non-empty events of the experiment. If consists of 4 outcomes, the number of outcomes that must have so that and are independent, is
- Advanced 2007MathematicsSingle correct
Let denote the complement of an event . Let be pairwise independent events with and . Then equals