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jpogirl26
Oct 6, 2010, 02:09 PM

Unknown008
Oct 7, 2010, 02:27 AM
Not necessarily.

Say you have a die and roll it.

Let A be the event a number greater than 4 is obtained.
Let B be the event a number smaller than 3 is obtained.

Events A and B are exclusive, but they are not complementary because:

P(A) + P(B) \neq 1