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Probability of symmetric difference of event and subevent
Formulation 0
Let $P = (\Omega, \mathcal{F}, \mathbb{P})$ be a D1159: Probability space such that
(i) $E, F \in \mathcal{F}$ are each an D1716: Event in $P$
(ii) $E \subseteq F$ is a D78: Subset of $F$
Then \begin{equation} \mathbb{P}(E \triangle F) = \mathbb{P}(F) - \mathbb{P}(E) \end{equation}
Proofs
Proof 0
Let $P = (\Omega, \mathcal{F}, \mathbb{P})$ be a D1159: Probability space such that
(i) $E, F \in \mathcal{F}$ are each an D1716: Event in $P$
(ii) $E \subseteq F$ is a D78: Subset of $F$
This result is a particular case of R4443: Measure of symmetric difference of set and subset. $\square$