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A partition of a sample space must have events that are
Adisjoint and exhaustive
Bequal and independent
Cnested and exhaustive
Ddisjoint with empty union
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. disjoint and exhaustive
Partition events cannot overlap and together must cover the whole sample space, each with positive probability.
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