Answer to Question #22042 in Statistics and Probability for Merdrill

Question

Is the following a mutually exclusive or inclusive event. The probability of drawing a card at random and it is a queen or a diamond.

Answer 1

Following is the inclusiveevent. Because every player can draw a queen or a diamond, so their probability
interferes. Therefore we can write this down next way:
P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) – P(A and B). And this is inclusive event.