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Probability of Complementary Events

Every event has an "everything else" — and the two chances always add to 1. Once that clicks, hard questions like "at least one" suddenly turn easy.

1Where it comes fromThe complement is everything that isn't the event. Watch the two slices fill the whole. 2How to do itP(not A) = 1 − P(A). One subtraction, with a generator to drill it. 3Where it gets tricky"At least one" vs "none" — and why the complement is sometimes far easier to count. 4Out in the wild"Chance it doesn't rain", games — and reading a complement backwards.

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