suppose you draw two cards (a sequence) from a standard 52-card deck without replacement.
Let A = "the first card is a spade" and B = "the second card is an Ace." These two events "feel" (at least to me) as if they should be independent, but we will see, surprisingly, that they are not. A tree diagram will help with the analysis.
(a) Calculate ?(?)
(b) Calculate ?(?)
(c) Calculate ?(?|?)
(d) Show that A and B are not independent (trivial, just observe that the results of (a) and (c) are different!).
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