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Mutually exclusive and independent eventsAQA A-Level Maths: Mind map

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Mutually exclusive and independent

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Exam questions on Mutually exclusive and independent events

  1. Events AA and BB are mutually exclusive, with P(A)=0.4P(A)=0.4 and P(B)=0.35P(B)=0.35.
    Determine whether AA and BB are independent.2 marks
  2. Events AA and BB are independent, with P(A)=0.6P(A)=0.6 and P(B)=0.5P(B)=0.5.
    Find P(A′∩B)P(A'\cap B).2 marks
  3. A factory has two machines, XX and YY. An item from XX is defective with probability 0.040.04 and an item from YY is defective with probability 0.060.06, 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
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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).