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Dependent and Independent Events

This is a short article on dependence and independence of two events. The ideas are discussed in the context of the conditional probability of one event given another. A couple of examples are given, including one involving life expectancy.
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http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Probability/IndependentEvents.shtml
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Alexander Bogomolny
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Kyle Siegrist
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Cut-the-knot
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