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Given that the events and are such that and . Find if they are (i) mutually exclusive (ii) independent.

Solution:

Given: and let the probability of event be

(i) Mutually exclusive

When A and B are mutually exclusive which implies that if two events cannot occur at the same moment, they are mutually exclusive or discontinuous.

Then

As we know that,
Substituting the value and evaluating:

(ii) Independent

When A and B are independent.Two events are independent, statistically independent, or stochastically independent if the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of occurrence of the other.