Alan and Stella Have Married and Have Decided Not to Have

question 84

Multiple Choice

Alan and Stella have married and have decided not to have any children. They should expect to

• A)be less wealthy than couples with children.
• B)have less freedom than couples with children.
• C)be viewed negatively, especially by women.
• D)have more marital dissatisfaction than couples with children.

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Definitions:

Independent Events

Two events that have no influence on each other's occurrence, meaning the probability of one does not affect the other.

P(A And B)

The probability that events A and B both occur, which can be calculated directly or via the multiplication rule for independent events.

P(B|A)

The likelihood of event B happening after event A has already taken place.

Complement

The set or amount that completes something to a whole, usually in the context of sets in mathematics or the complement rule in probability.