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Three coins are tossed simultaneously. Consider the event E 'three heads or three tails', F 'at least two heads' and G ‘at most two heads'. Of the pairs (E,F), (E,G) and (F,G), which are independent? which are dependent?

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The events (E and F) are indpendent and the events (E and G) and (F and G) are dependent.
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