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Suppose event A has a 0.99 probability of occurring and event B has a 0.98 probability of  occurring. Compute the odds for event A and the odds for event B Comment on the relative difference between the odds for the two events compared to the  relative difference between the probabilities. How are the odds deceptive in this case?

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