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Exercises: Explain Conditional Probability and Independence in Everyday Language
Work through each section in order. This standard is about EXPLAINING in
plain words, so several problems ask you to write complete sentences.
Remember: "A given B" and "B given A" are different questions with
different reference groups; "independent" means knowing one tells you
nothing about the other (it is about information, not whether the events
can happen together).
Grade 10·21 problems·~30 min·Common Core Math - HS Statistics and Probability·group·hss-cp-a-5
Work through problems with immediate feedback
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Warm-Up: Conditional and Independence Language
These problems review the plain-language meaning of conditioning and independence.
1.
In plain language, two events are independent when: