Given: P(AᑎB) = P(A)P(B) Prove: P(AᑎB') ≟ P(A)P(B') Let P(AᑎB')=w Let P(AᑎB)=x Let P(A'ᑎB)=y Let P(A'ᑎB')=z Then x+y+w+z = 1 Draw a Venn diagram with the probability of each region written in each region:P(AᑎB) = P(A)P(B) given x = (w+x)(x+y) x(w+x+y+z) = (w+x)(x+y) since w+x+y+z = 1 wx+x²+xy+xz = wx+wy+x²+xy multiplying out xz = wy We want to prove: P(AᑎB') ≟ P(A)P(B') w ≟ (w+x)(w+z) w(w+x+y+z) ≟ (w+x)(w+z) since w+x+y+z = 1 w²+wx+wy+wz ≟ w²+wz+wx+xz So to prove that, we take wy = xz same as xz = wy , proved above and add w²+wx+wz to both sides: wy+w²+wx+wz = xz+w²+wx+wz w²+wx+wy+wz = w²+wz+wx+xz rearrange to reverse the above steps w(w+x+y+z) = (w+x)(w+z) w = (w+x)(w+z) since w+x+y+z = 1 P(AᑎB') = P(A)P(B') which is what we had to prove. Edwin