Sample space: 2 dice
Data on prison sentences
Empirical probabilities from prison sentence data
Data on endangered species
Empirical compound probabilities from endangered species data
Addition rule for mutually exclusive events
General additional rule (events not mutually exclusive – we don’t want to double-count the overlap, so we subtract it off once
Example of non-mutually exclusive events using the endangered species data: A = reptiles, B = U.S., so A&B = reptiles in the U.S.
Classical probability example of addition rule with mutually exclusive events (a) and non-mutually exclusive events (c)
Finishing off example from last slide
A similar example
… and finishing that one off.
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