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3.2 Exercise 17

Avg difficulty 2.5

Since P(·|B)P \left(\right. \cdot \left|\right. B \left.\right) is a probability measure for a given B, we must have P(A|B)+P(Ac|B)=1P \left(\right. A \left|\right. B \left.\right) + P \left(\right. A^{c} \left|\right. B \left.\right) = 1. Construct an example to show that in general P(A|B)+P(A|Bc)≠1P \left(\right. A \left|\right. B \left.\right) + P \left(\right. A \left|\right. B^{c} \left.\right) \neq 1.

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 3.2 Problems on Conditional Probability, exercise 17

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