Addition rule: P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) minus P(A and B) for any two events.
How to apply it: Apply the addition rule for unions; if A and B are mutually exclusive, P(A and B) = 0.
Course: AP Statistics · Unit: Probability, Random Variables, and Probability Distributions
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