Scribd
Upload
32 views

Lesson 4 - Mutually Exclusive Events Notes PDF

- Event A is drawing a heart from a standard 52-card deck. Event B is drawing a King. - Events A and B are not mutually exclusive, because it is possible to draw a King of hearts, so they share the outcome of drawing a King of hearts. - If two events are not mutually exclusive, their probability of union is the sum of the individual probabilities minus the probability of their intersection.

Uploaded by

Shan Caballero
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
32 views

Lesson 4 - Mutually Exclusive Events Notes PDF

- Event A is drawing a heart from a standard 52-card deck. Event B is drawing a King. - Events A and B are not mutually exclusive, because it is possible to draw a King of hearts, so they share the outcome of drawing a King of hearts. - If two events are not mutually exclusive, their probability of union is the sum of the individual probabilities minus the probability of their intersection.

Uploaded by

Shan Caballero
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

–

Review: Union and Intersection Example 1 – State whether the following pairs of events are mutually
exclusive or not.
Consider a standard deck of 52 cards. One card is drawn at random
from the deck.
Mutually
Event A Event B
Event A = { drawing a heart ♥ } Exclusive?

Event B = { drawing a King } Turning left Turning right

 The event “A or B”, written as  A  B is successful if event A


Drawing a King Drawing an spade ♠
occurs or if the event B occurs or if both events occur.
e.g. Drawing a 5 of hearts. Flipping a heads on a coin Flipping a tails on a coin

 The event “A and B”, written as  A  B is successful only if both Getting 90% in Math 30-2 Passing Math 30-2
event A and event B occur simultaneously (at the same time).
Example 2 – Quynh and a friend are betting with a 20-sided die. Quynh
e.g. Drawing a King of hearts.
wins if a number less than 8 or a number greater than 16 is rolled. What
is the probability of Quynh winning?
Mutually Exclusive Events
If the events A and B have no common outcomes, the events are
called mutually exclusive. That is, they can’t happen at the same time.
For example, consider rolling an even number or an odd number on a
6-sided die.

YOUR TURN – Tavell and a friend are playing a game using a deck of
cards. Tavell wins if he draws an ace or a face card. What is the
probability of Tavell winning?
If two events are mutually exclusive then:

P A  B  0

P  A  B   P  A  P  B 
NOTE: Complementary events will always be mutually exclusive since
they have no outcomes in common.
However, not ALL mutually exclusive events are complementary.
If two events are not mutually exclusive, the events can occur at the Example 4 – A card is drawn from standard deck of cards. Determine
same time. the probability that:
For example, consider rolling an even number or a multiple of three on a) a 7 of diamonds or a heart is drawn
a 6-sided die.

b) a 7 or a heart is drawn

If two events are not mutually exclusive then:

P  A  B   P  A  P  B   P  A  B 

Example 3 – A school bulletin published the results of a recent survey of


student eating habits. YOUR TURN – A study of 200 people with illnesses including headaches
 62% of students skip breakfast and backaches were asked to evaluate a pain relief medicine. The
 24% of students skip lunch following results were recorded:
 22% eat both breakfast and lunch  60 people experienced headache relief
a) Are skipping breakfast and skipping lunch mutually exclusive  126 people experienced backache relief
events? Represent the information in a Venn diagram.  36 people experienced relief from both
a) Are headache relief and backache relief mutually exclusive
events? Represent the information in a Venn diagram.

b) Determine the probability that a randomly selected student skips


breakfast but not lunch?
b) Determine the probability that a person taking the drug experiences
relief from:
i) at least one of the symptoms ii) neither of the symptoms
c) Determine the probability that a randomly selected student skips
breakfast or lunch?

You might also like

pFad - Phonifier reborn

Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


Alternative Proxies:

Alternative Proxy

pFad Proxy

pFad v3 Proxy

pFad v4 Proxy