Question

$$A,\,B,\,C$$   are three events for which $$P\left( A \right) = 0.6,\,P\left( B \right) = 0.4,\,P\left( C \right) = 0.5,\,P\left( {A \cup B} \right) = 0.8,\,P\left( {A \cap C} \right) = 0.3$$               and $$P\left( {A \cap B \cap C} \right) = 0.2.$$
If $$P\left( {A \cup B \cup C} \right) \geqslant 0.85$$     then the interval of values of $$P\left( {B \cap C} \right)$$   is :

A. $$\left[ {0.2,\,0.35} \right]$$  
B. $$\left[ {0.55,\,0.7} \right]$$
C. $$\left[ {0.2,\,0.55} \right]$$
D. none of these
Answer :   $$\left[ {0.2,\,0.35} \right]$$
Solution :
$$\eqalign{ & \,\,\,\,\,P\left( {A \cup B \cup C} \right) \cr & = P\left( A \right) + P\left( B \right) + P\left( C \right) - P\left( {A \cap B} \right) - P\left( {B \cap C} \right) - P\left( {C \cap A} \right) - P\left( {A \cap B \cap C} \right) \cr & = 0.6 + 0.4 + 0.5 - 0.2 - P\left( {B \cap C} \right) - 0.3 + 0.2 \cr & = 1.2 - P\left( {B \cap C} \right) \cr} $$
$$\eqalign{ & {\text{because }}P\left( {A \cup B} \right) = P\left( A \right) + P\left( B \right) - P\left( {A \cap B} \right) \cr & \Rightarrow 0.8 = 0.6 + 0.4 - P\left( {A \cap B} \right) \cr & {\text{But }}0.85 \leqslant P\left( {A \cup B \cup C} \right) \leqslant 1 \cr & \therefore \,0.85 \leqslant 1.2 - P\left( {B \cap C} \right) \leqslant 1 \cr & \Rightarrow 0.2 \leqslant P\left( {B \cap C} \right) \leqslant 0.35 \cr} $$

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Releted Question 1

Two fair dice are tossed. Let $$x$$ be the event that the first die shows an even number and $$y$$ be the event that the second die shows an odd number. The two events $$x$$ and $$y$$ are:

A. Mutually exclusive
B. Independent and mutually exclusive
C. Dependent
D. None of these
Releted Question 2

Two events $$A$$ and $$B$$ have probabilities 0.25 and 0.50 respectively. The probability that both $$A$$ and $$B$$ occur simultaneously is 0.14. Then the probability that neither $$A$$ nor $$B$$ occurs is

A. 0.39
B. 0.25
C. 0.11
D. none of these
Releted Question 3

The probability that an event $$A$$ happens in one trial of an experiment is 0.4. Three independent trials of the experiment are performed. The probability that the event $$A$$ happens at least once is

A. 0.936
B. 0.784
C. 0.904
D. none of these
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If $$A$$ and $$B$$ are two events such that $$P(A) > 0,$$   and $$P\left( B \right) \ne 1,$$   then $$P\left( {\frac{{\overline A }}{{\overline B }}} \right)$$  is equal to
(Here $$\overline A$$ and $$\overline B$$ are complements of $$A$$ and $$B$$ respectively).

A. $$1 - P\left( {\frac{A}{B}} \right)$$
B. $$1 - P\left( {\frac{{\overline A }}{B}} \right)$$
C. $$\frac{{1 - P\left( {A \cup B} \right)}}{{P\left( {\overline B } \right)}}$$
D. $$\frac{{P\left( {\overline A } \right)}}{{P\left( {\overline B } \right)}}$$

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