Lydia is a project manager and submitted proposals for two different projects, Project X and Project Y to her boss. The probabil

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Lydia is a project manager and submitted proposals for two different projects, Project X and Project Y to her boss. The probabil

ity of getting project X approved is 0.65. The probability of getting project Y approved is 0.77. The probability of getting at least one of the projects approved 0.90. The two projects are independent.
a. True
b. False

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mixer [17] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-19T09:29:08+03:00

mixer [17]3 years ago

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Answer:

b. False

Step-by-step explanation:

P(X & Y) = 0.77 + 0.65 - 0.9 = 0.52

P(X) × P(Y) = 0.65×0.77 = 0.5004

Since P(X&Y) and P(X)×P(Y) are not equal, they are not independent