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If you're going to take a probability exam, you can better your chances of acing the test by studying the following topics. They have a high probability of being on the exam.

  • The relationship between mutually exclusive and independent events

  • Identifying when a probability is a conditional probability in a word problem

  • Probability concepts that go against your intuition

  • Marginal, conditional, and joint probabilities for a two-way table

  • The Central Limit Theorem:

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  • When to use a permutation and when to use a combination

  • Finding E(X) from scratch and interpreting it

  • Sampling with replacement versus without replacement

  • The Law of Total Probability and Bayes' Theorem

  • When the Poisson and exponential are needed in the same problem

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Deborah J. Rumsey, PhD, is an Auxiliary Professor and Statistics Education Specialist at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Statistics For Dummies, Statistics II For Dummies, Statistics Workbook For Dummies, and Probability For Dummies.