P(The card is a king | The card is a face card) ≠P(The card is a king) Whenever the probability of an event E is not affected by the occurrence of another event F, and vice ver...P(The card is a king | The card is a face card) ≠P(The card is a king) Whenever the probability of an event E is not affected by the occurrence of another event F, and vice versa, we say that the two events E and F are independent. Both solutions to Example \PageIndex8 are actually the same, except that in Solution 2 we delayed substituting the values into the equation until after we solved the equation for P(A∩B).
P(The card is a king | The card is a face card) ≠P(The card is a king) Whenever the probability of an event E is not affected by the occurrence of another event F, and vice ver...P(The card is a king | The card is a face card) ≠P(The card is a king) Whenever the probability of an event E is not affected by the occurrence of another event F, and vice versa, we say that the two events E and F are independent. Both solutions to Example \PageIndex8 are actually the same, except that in Solution 2 we delayed substituting the values into the equation until after we solved the equation for P(A∩B).