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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Fair Die Example• A fair die is thrown. A is the event ’a number greater than 3 isthrown’ <strong>and</strong> B is the event ’an even number is thrown’• Find Pr(A ∪ B) <strong>and</strong> Pr(A ∩ B)Pr(A) =3/6 = 1/2 Pr(B) =3/6 = 1/2Fair Die Example - Visualisation• A fair die is thrown. A is the event ‘a number greater than 3 isthrown’ <strong>and</strong> B is the event ‘an even number is thrown’524613Pr(A ∪ B) = (2 4 5 6)Pr(A ∩ B) = (4 6)Fair Die Example• Find Pr(A ∩ B)• Use multiplication rule, because events are not independent :• We can find the conditional probability <strong>of</strong> Pr(B | A)Pr(A ∩ B)Pr(B | A) =Pr(A)P r(B | A) = 1/31/2P r(B | A) = 2/337

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