Let P(S) denote the power set of a set S. Which of the following is always true?

$${{E_1}}$$ and $${{E_2}}$$ are events in a probability space satisfying the following constraints:
$$ \bullet $$ $$\Pr \,\,({E_1}) = \Pr \,({E_2})$$
$$ \bullet $$ $$\Pr \,\,({E_1}\, \cup {E_2}) = 1$$
$$ \bullet $$ $${E_1}$$ & $${E_2}$$ are independent

The value of Pr ($${E_1}$$), the probability of the event $${E_1}$$, is

The minimum number of cards to be dealt from an arbitrarily shuffled deck of 52 cards to guarantee that three cards are from same suit is

The solution to the recurrence equation
$$T\left( {{2^k}} \right)$$ $$ = 3T\left( {{2^{k - 1}}} \right) + 1$$,
$$T\left( 1 \right) = 1$$ is: