No More Than One State of Nature Can Occur at a Given

question 8

Multiple Choice

No more than one state of nature can occur at a given time for a chance event. This indicates that the states of nature are defined such that they are

• A)collectively exhaustive.
• B)mutually exclusive.
• C)independent outcomes.
• D)conservative events.

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