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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ia Paper 2 9E b i Solution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Events and are independent whenFor a possible sum , let be the number of ordered die pairs with sum . ThenIf , then ; otherwise it is zero. Independence for a possible sum therefore requiresso . This occurs only for , and then is valid for every . ThusIf impossible sums are admitted as events of probability zero, they are trivially independent as well.
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