Edexcel S1 2003 November — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2003
SessionNovember
TopicIndependent Events
TypeCalculate probabilities using independence

4. Explain what you understand by
  1. a sample space,
  2. an event. Two events \(A\) and \(B\) are independent, such that \(\mathrm { P } ( A ) = \frac { 1 } { 3 }\) and \(\mathrm { P } ( B ) = \frac { 1 } { 4 }\).
    Find
  3. \(\mathrm { P } ( A \cap B )\),
  4. \(\mathrm { P } ( A B )\),
  5. \(\mathrm { P } ( A \cup B )\).