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Navy OAR Exam Prep 22, Probability Counting and Expected Outcomes
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This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The crucial difference between permutations (order matters) and combinations (order doesn't matter) for OAR counting problems.
- How to use the complement rule as a shortcut for "at least one" probability questions.
- Why identifying events as independent (with replacement) or dependent (without replacement) is a key exam skill.
- The first step to solving any probability problem: clearly defining the sample space of total outcomes.
- A simple method for calculating expected outcomes by multiplying the probability of an event by the number of trials.
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