1) Pr[E′|F]= (2) Pr[E|F′]=

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about independent events E and F in a sample space S, but assume that Pr[E]=0.15 and Pr[F]=0.35.

Compute the following conditional probabilities:

(1) Pr[E′|F]=

(2) Pr[E|F′]=

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Conditional probability forms a basic infrastructure of probability . Independent events are those events whose joint probabilities can be written as a product of marginal probabilities .

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