Re: Independence versus mutual exclusivity

From: A N Niel (anniel_at_nym.alias.net.invalid)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:36:21 -0400

In article <8cb846f1.0410171111.3fd968be@posting.google.com>, adh <adoug48@comcast.net> wrote:

> A single card is drawn one at a time from an ordinary deck of cards.
> Give examples of events "A" and "B" associated with this experiment
> that are: (answer can not involve two or more different draws) For
> example, "A" might be that the card drawn is red.
> I understand mutual exclusive is neither events can possibly occur
> and independent means an events doesn't rely on another event to
> happen. I'm going round and round with this problem, can someone
> please help?
>
> Give examples for each:
> a. Mutually exclusive but not independent
What does "mutually exclusive" mean?
Are "card drawn is red" and "card drawn is black" mutually exclusive?
Why or why not?
What does "independent" mean?
Are the two events listed above independent?
Why or why not?

> b. independent but not mutually exclusive
> c. Independent and mutually exclusive
> d. Neither independent nor mutually exclusive

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