True or false: conditional probability
Read exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- P(E|F) = P(E ∩ F) ÷ P(F), provided P(F) ≠ 0.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- P(E|F) can be greater than 1.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- P(E′|F) = 1 − P(E|F).
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- P(E|F) is defined even when P(F) = 0.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- 0 ≤ P(E|F) ≤ 1 always holds.
Each line is a summary bullet, quoted or bent. Source: syllabus Maths Part II, Ch 13 Probability.