Bicycles for hire at the Durban Beach front are deemed beyond repair when one or both its wheels are damaged. According to current statistics, there is an 8% chance that the front wheel gets damaged and a 12% chance the back wheel gets damaged. What is the probability that a hired bike will be deemed beyond repair, provided that the wheels get damaged independently of each other?
Let A denote front wheel damaged
So P(A)=0.08
and B denote that back wheels get damaged
so P(B)=0.12
As the two events are independent
Probability that hired bike will deemed beyond repair-
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