AES Study Guide Exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers

P(A) - Answer Number of ways for A to occur / total number of outcomes that could occur Conditional Probability - Answer The probability that an event will occur given that another event has already occurred Mutually exclusive - Answer Events that cannot occur together P(A|B) - Answer Probability of A given that B occurs Independent events - Answer If the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of the occurrence of the others Complementary events - Answer Includes all of the outcomes for an experiment that are not in the event Intersection of two events - Answer Represents the collection of all outcomes that are common to both A and B (Upside down U) means "and" - Answer Multiply probabilities of events together (U) means "or" - Answer Add probability of events together P(B|A)*P(A) - Answer P(A intersection B) P(A|B)*P(B) - Answer P(B intersection B)