Chapter 3: Q.3.9 (page 107)
Consider two independent tosses of a fair coin. Let be the event that the first toss results in heads, let be the event that the second toss results in heads, and let be the event that in both tosses the coin lands on the same side. Show that the events , , and are pairwise independent鈥攖hat is, and are independent, and are independent, and and C are independent鈥攂ut not independent.
Short Answer
All the all three events are not independent: