Mutually exclusive and independent eventsAQA A-Level Maths: Mind map
Mutually exclusive
Independent
Mutually exclusive and independent
two key rules
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General addition
The big difference
Distributions
Exam questions on Mutually exclusive and independent events
- Events and are mutually exclusive, with and .Determine whether and are independent.2 marks
- Events and are independent, with and .Find .2 marks
- A factory has two machines, and . An item from is defective with probability and an item from is defective with probability , independently of each other. A pair consists of one item from each machine.Find the probability that exactly one item in a pair is defective.3 marks
Written by the Exaim team, led by Shaun Daswani (Head of Upper Secondary, Improve ME Institute; MSc Financial Mathematics, Imperial College London; BSc, UCL) and Jason Daswani (operational lead, Improve ME Institute; LSE).