A Curious Adventure of Chances

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I was telling the following probability adventure to my sister.

I and my friend Prash were staring at a finite sample space ω \omega , when the following conversation took place:

I: I am thinking of two independent events A A and B B in ω \omega .

Prash: Are both events non trivial?

I: You mean the probabilities of the events is strictly between 0 0 and 1 1 for both, right? Yeah, it is.

Prash: (evil smile) I know the probabilities of both events!

I: What?! I didn't tell you anything about my events!!

At this point she asked me, "Did Prash know the sample space? ".

I agreed that he did. She then remarked, "Even I can tell the probabilities of both events". As she left the room, she further pointed out "I can even tell the number of elements in the sample space!".

I was surprised. She didn't even know the sample space and yet she knew what Prash knew.

Can you tell the number of elements in the sample space?


The answer is 4.

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