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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ia Paper 2 11F iv Solution by
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The statement is false. Take two independent fair bits on the four equally probable outcomes , and put , , and . Each of has probability , andThus is independent of each event separately. But contains , whereas its intersection with contains only . ThereforeThis is a concrete failure of extending separate independence to the generated union. A counterexample at the permitted value disproves the universal claim; for any larger one can repeat as the additional events.
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