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1 $begingroup$ I have several statements related to the probability of three events and am trying to determine if the statements are true or false. For some of the answers, I have intuition but I would prefer to learn a provable answer. I have 3 events $E_1, E_2, E_3$ in a probability space. If $E_3 subset E_1$ and $E_1, E_2$ are pairwise independent, are $E_2, E_3$ pairwise independent? $E_1, E_2, E_3$ are three jointly independent events. The, the events $E_1 cup E_2$ and $E_3$ are pairwise independent. $E_1, E_2, E_3$ be three pairwise independent events in a probability space. Then the events $E_1cup E_2$ and $E_3$ are pairwise independent. My solutions thus far. My thought is it depends on the amount of space $E_3$ occupies of $E_1$ because independence is defined as $P(AB)=P(A)P(B)$ .