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Independent and mutually exclusive do not mean the same thing.
Two events are independent if the following are true:
Two events A and B are independent if the knowledge that one occurred does not affect the chance the other occurs. For example, the outcomes of two roles of a fair die are independent events. The outcome of the first roll does not change the probability for the outcome of the second roll. To show two events are independent, you must show only one of the above conditions. If two events are NOT independent, then we say that they are dependent .
Sampling may be done with replacement or without replacement .
If it is not known whether A and B are independent or dependent, assume they are dependent until you can show otherwise .
You have a fair, well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. It consists of four suits. The suits are clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades. There are 13 cards in each suit consisting of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J (jack), Q (queen), K (king) of that suit.
a. Sampling with replacement:
Suppose you pick three cards with replacement. The first card you pick out of the 52 cards is the
Q of spades. You put this card back, reshuffle the cards and pick a second card from the 52-card deck. It is the ten of clubs. You put this card back, reshuffle the cards and pick a third card from the 52-card deck. This time, the card is the
Q of spades again. Your picks are {
Q of spades, ten of clubs,
Q of spades}. You have picked the
Q of spades twice. You pick each card from the 52-card deck.
b. Sampling without replacement:
Suppose you pick three cards without replacement. The first card you pick out of the 52 cards is the
K of hearts. You put this card aside and pick the second card from the 51 cards remaining in the deck. It is the three of diamonds. You put this card aside and pick the third card from the remaining 50 cards in the deck. The third card is the
J of spades. Your picks are {
K of hearts, three of diamonds,
J of spades}. Because you have picked the cards without replacement, you cannot pick the same card twice.
You have a fair, well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. It consists of four suits. The suits are clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades. There are 13 cards in each suit consisting of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J (jack), Q (queen), K (king) of that suit. Three cards are picked at random.
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