I had recently completed a mathematics exam and my friends and I discussed this question for a while - none of being able to reach a conclusion. I am certain that if two probabilites are mutually exclusive and exhaustive that their sum must be 1 but I am not sure that if two probabilites are exhaustive yet not mutually exclusive, can their sum be greater or less than 1? Or does the sum of all exhaustive events sum to 1?
Can P(A) + P(B) >1 if the events are not mutually exclusive but are exhaustive?
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