Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2021/ia/paper-2/9e/b/i/solution

Events and are independent when
For a possible sum , let be the number of ordered die pairs with sum . Then
If , then ; otherwise it is zero. Independence for a possible sum therefore requires
so . This occurs only for , and then is valid for every . Thus
If impossible sums are admitted as events of probability zero, they are trivially independent as well.

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