Take two events A and B. For example, let A be the event “Receive a score of 95% on the econometrics exam” and let B be the event “Study econometrics 12 hours a day”. We might be interested in the ...

# Addition Theorem: P(A ∪ B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A ∩ B) def addition_theorem(prob_a, prob_b, prob_a_and_b): Calculate the probability of A or B happening (union of A and B). Args: prob_a (float): ...

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Suppose N is the total number of simple events in the sample space S. Number of simple events in A∩B = k Number of simple events in A = m+k Number of simple events in B = n+k ...

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