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3.2 Exercise 17

Avg difficulty 2.5

A box has two balls, one white and one red. We select one ball, put it back in the box, and select a second ball (sampling with replacement). Let T be the event of getting the white ball twice, F the event of picking the white ball first, S the event of picking the white ball in the second drawing.

  1. Compute P ( T ) P \left(T\right).
  2. Compute P ( T | F ) P \left(\right. T \left|\right. F \left.\right).
  3. Are T and F independent?.
  4. Are F and S mutually exclusive?
  5. Are F and S independent?

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