A fair coin and an unbiased die are tossed. Let A be the event ‘head appears on the coin’ and B be the event ‘3 on the die’. Check whether A and B are independent events or not.
Given: A fair coin and an unbiased die are tossed.
We know that the sample space S:
S = {(H,1), (H,2), (H,3), (H,4), (H,5), (H,6), (T,1), (T,2), (T,3), (T,4), (T,5), (T,6)}
Let A be the event ‘head appears on the coin:
⇒ A = {(H,1), (H,2), (H,3), (H,4), (H,5), (H,6)}
⇒ P(A) =
Now, Let B be the event 3 on the die:
⇒ B = {(H,3), (T,3)}
As, A ∩ B = {(H,3)}
⇒ P(A ∩ B) = ..(1)
And P(A) . P(B) = ..(2)
From (1) and (2) P (A ∩ B) = P(A) . P(B)
Therefore, A and B are independent events.