Independent Events
What Independent Events means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA, Eduqas, Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Independent Events
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Events where the outcome of one does not affect the probability of the other.
Events where the outcome of one does not affect the probability of the other occurring.
Events for which knowing that one occurs does not change the probability of the other.
Events for which the occurrence of one does not change the probability of the other.
Events where the outcome of one does not affect the outcome of the other.
Topics that use Independent Events
- Probability (AQA GCSE)
- Statistics (AQA GCSE)
- Probability (Eduqas GCSE)
- Probability (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Mutually Exclusive
- Mutually exclusive events
- relative frequency
- Sample space
- Equally likely outcomes
- Expected frequency
- expected outcomes
- Independent and dependent events
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