P(true OR false) = P(true) + P(false) - P(both) = 0.90 + 0.82 - 0.75 = 0.97
Are "believed true" and "believed false" mutually exclusive? Only if P(both) = 0.
Navin S.
asked 02/10/19A civics teacher asked her students to indicate whether they believed each of two headlines. One headline was false and the other was true, but the students did not know this. The probability that a student selected at random believed the true headline was and the probability that the student believed the false headline was . She found that of the students believed both headlines.
Find the probability that a randomly selected person from this sample believed the true headline OR believed the false headline.
P(true OR false) = P(true) + P(false) - P(both) = 0.90 + 0.82 - 0.75 = 0.97
Are "believed true" and "believed false" mutually exclusive? Only if P(both) = 0.
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