MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
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Author: Amos Gilat
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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In a school, students were asked if they prepared properly for their final exams, and if they passed the given
course.
80% of the students said they prepared properly for the exams, and 75% of them passed the exam.
70% of the students both prepared and pass the exams.
Consider the following events
P = prepared properly for the final exam.
S = passed the given course

a- Use the given probabilities to construct a hypothetical 1000 table with columns corresponding to whether
or not a student prepared properly for their final exams and rows corresponding to whether the student
passes the course or not.
b- Use the table to calculate the following probabilities

i. The probability of preparing for the final exam or passing the course.
ii. The probability of not preparing for the final exam nor passing the course.

c- Are the events P(P) and P(S) independent? Justify your answer.
d- Are the events P(P) and P(not S) mutually exclusive? Justify your answer.

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