[All Steps] You are taking two courses during winter session, math and history, and your subjective assessment of your performance is: Event Probability


Question: You are taking two courses during winter session, math and history, and your subjective assessment of your performance is:

Event Probability
fail both courses .05
fail math ( irrespective of whether or not you fail history as well) .15
fail history ( irrespective of whether or not you fail math as well) .08

Let's develop a joint-probability table to analyze this problem (the letters A – H represent probability values. For example, A is the probability of failing both math and history; B is the probability of failing math and passing history; while C is the sum of A and B, and represents the probability of failing math).

fail history pass history row sum
fail math A B C
pass math D E F
column sum G H
fail history pass history row sum
fail math 0.05 0.10 0.15
pass math 0.03 0.82 0.85
column sum 0.08 0.92 1
  1. What does C + F equal?
  2. What does A + B + D + E equal?
  3. What is the probability of failing math only (that is, you fail math but pass history)?
  4. What is the probability of passing either course?

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