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    Pairwise but not mutual independence: Bernstein's tetrahedron

    P-TRIV-PR06

    Area
    Prelim
    Status
    draft
    Contents

    Three faces of a tetrahedron are painted red (R), green (G) and blue (B), while the forth face is painted in all three colors (see the figure). Denote by P (A) the probability that it falls on a face containing the color A, A = R, G, B.

    The source also includes Figure 6 showing the tetrahedron; Flash preserves only the textual face-color description.

    1. Check if \(P ( A \cap B ) = P ( A ) P ( B )\) for all \(A , B = R , G , B\)

    2. Check if \(P ( R \cap G \cap B ) = P ( R ) P ( G ) P ( B )\) . Are the events R, G, B pairwise independent? Are they mutually independent?

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