CAIE S1 2002 June — Question 1

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2002
SessionJune
TopicIndependent Events
TypeBoth independence and mutual exclusivity

1 Events \(A\) and \(B\) are such that \(\mathrm { P } ( A ) = 0.3 , \mathrm { P } ( B ) = 0.8\) and \(\mathrm { P } ( A\) and \(B\) )=0.4. State, giving a reason in each case, whether events \(A\) and \(B\) are
  1. independent,
  2. mutually exclusive.