An eatery is giving out free burgers in a promotion to celebrate its anniversary. A total of 80 burgers, consisting of 8 different flavours, 10 from each flavour, are to be given out. The burgers are randomly chosen and given out one at a time. Of the 8 burger flavours, the 'Curry' and 'Spicy' burgers are most popular among customers. In the first four burgers to be given out, the events and are defined as follows:
- (i)
Find .
- (ii)
Justify if and are independent events.
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8(i)
1. Find the number of ways event $B$ can occur.
Event is getting exactly 1 'Spicy' burger and 3 non-'Spicy' burgers in the first four burgers.
Number of ways to choose 1 'Spicy' out of 10 and 3 non-'Spicy' out of the remaining :
2. Find the number of ways event $A \cap B$ can occur.
Event means exactly 1 'Spicy' burger and at least 2 'Curry' burgers. The 3 non-Spicy burgers must consist of either 2 'Curry' and 1 'Other', or 3 'Curry' and 0 'Other' (where 'Other' represents the remaining burgers).
3. Calculate the conditional probability $\text{P}(A \mid B)$.
or
8(ii)
1. State or calculate $\text{P}(A \mid B)$ from part (i).
2. Calculate the unconditional probability $\text{P}(A)$.
3. Compare the probabilities to conclude on the independence of $A'$ and $B'$.
and are not independent events.
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