Statistics Full Video Course - Probability - Addition Rule and Mutually Exclusive Events
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Addition Rule 1: When two events, A and B, are mutually exclusive, the probability that A or B will occur is the sum of the probability of each event. Addition Rule 2: When two events, A and B, are non-mutually exclusive, there is some overlap between these events. The general addition rule states that, given 2 events and , the probability . ... As a result, the general addition rules heeds . So fundamentally, if two events are mutually exclusive, you can just add up the probabilities of event and event , since both of these events cannot happen simultaneously.
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