A retail grocer has decided to market organic "health foods" and will purchase a new line of products from each of two suppliers. Unknown to the grocer, the two suppliers are in financial distress. Past experience has shown that, for firms with similar credit histories, the probability that bankruptcy proceedings will be initiated within one year is .7. We are interested in observing the financial progress of the two suppliers over the next year. For this experiment, the simple events and their associated probabilities are as follows (B1: Supplier 1 declares bankruptcy; N1: Supplier 1 does not declare bankruptcy, etc.): Simple Events are (B1, B2), (B1, N2), (N1, B2), (N1, N2) with associated probabilities of .49, .21, .21, and .09 respectively.
Compute the probabilities of each of the following events:
D: {Neither supplier declares bankruptcy}
F: {At least one supplier declares bankruptcy during the next year}
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