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CAPE Pure Mathematics Unit 2 · May/June 2018 · Paper 2 · Question 5(a)(i)

Events A and B are such that P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.45, and P(A U B) = 0.68.

Calculate P(A intersect B).

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