A student has applied for admission to two management Institutes A and B. He has assessed the chance of getting admission in A as 0.4 and B as 0.6. He also believes that the chance of getting admission in both as 0.2. Find the probabilities of the following events : (a) He will be successful in getting admission. (b) He will get admission in only one of the two institutes. (c) He will get admission in B, given that he has been admitted in A. (d) He will not get admission in A, given that he has not been admitted in B.

A student has applied for admission to two management Institutes A and B. He has assessed the chance of getting admission in A as 0.4 and B as 0.6. He also believes that the chance of getting admission in both as 0.2. Find the probabilities of the following events : (a) He will be successful in getting admission. (b) He will get admission in only one of the two institutes. (c) He will get admission in B, given that he has been admitted in A. (d) He will not get admission in A, given that he has not been admitted in B.

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Probability theory is a branch of mathematics that deals with the subject of probability. Although there are many different concepts of probability, probability theory expresses the definition mathematically through a series of axioms. Usually, these axioms express probability in terms of a probability space, which assigns a measure with values ranging from 0 to 1 to a set of outcomes known as the sample space. An event is a subset of these outcomes that is described.

Conditional Probability

By definition, the term probability is expressed as a part of mathematics where the chance of an event that may either occur or not is evaluated and expressed in numerical terms. The range of the value within which probability can be expressed is between 0 and 1. The higher the chance of an event occurring, the closer is its value to be 1. If the probability of an event is 1, it means that the event will happen under all considered circumstances. Similarly, if the probability is exactly 0, then no matter the situation, the event will never occur.

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A student has applied for admission to two management Institutes A and B. He has assessed the chance of getting admission in A as 0.4 and B as 0.6. He also believes that the chance of getting admission in both as 0.2.
Find the probabilities of the following events : (a) He will be successful in getting admission. (b) He will get admission in only one of the two institutes. (c) He will get admission in B, given that he has been admitted in A. (d) He will not get admission in A, given that he has not been admitted in B.

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