Events and its Types

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Events and its Types: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as events in a random experiment, algebra of events, mutually exclusive events, exhaustive system of events and elementary events of an experiment.

Important Questions on Events and its Types

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For two given events A and B,P(AB) is:

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Find the probability that a number selected at random from the numbers 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7 will be their mean.

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A word consists of 10 different alphabets, in which there are 4 consonants and 6 vowels. Four alphabets are chosen at random. What is the probability that more than one vowel is selected?

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 A town has two doctors x and y operating independently.if the probability that the doctor x is available is 0.9 and that for y is 0.8,then find out the probability that at least one doctor is available when needed.

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A coin is tossed three times, consider the following events.

A: 'No head appears', B: 'Exactly one head appears' and C: 'Atleast two heads appear'.

Do they form a set of mutually exclusive and exhaustive events?

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Two dice are thrown and the sum of the numbers which come up on the dice is noted. Let us consider the following events associated with this experiment

A: 'the sum is even'.

B: 'the sum is a multiple of 3'.

C: 'the sum is less than 4'.

D: 'the sum is greater than 11'.

Which pairs of these events are mutually exclusive?

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For any two events A and B:

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the intersection of the events E: “the number rolled is odd” and T: “the number rolled is greater than one.”

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the intersection of the events E: “the number rolled is odd” and T: “the number rolled is greater than two.”

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the intersection of the events E: “the number rolled is odd” and T: “the number rolled is greater than three.”

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the intersection of the events E: “the number rolled is even” and T: “the number rolled is greater than three.”

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the intersection of the events E: “the number rolled is even” and T: “the number rolled is greater than four.”

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the union of the events E: “the number rolled is even” and T: “the number rolled is greater than four.”

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the union of the events E: “the number rolled is odd” and T: “the number rolled is greater than four.”

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the union of the events E: “the number rolled is odd” and T: “the number rolled is greater than three.”

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the union of the events E: “the number rolled is odd” and T: “the number rolled is greater than two.”

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In the experiment of rolling a single die, find the union of the events E: “the number rolled is even” and T: “the number rolled is greater than two.”

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Find the total number of elementary events associated with the random experiment of rolling a pair of dice together.

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Find the total number of elementary events associated with the random experiment of tossing two coins.

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Find the total number of elementary events when a coin is tossed.