alleryStart learning →Mutually exclusive events can never do what?
AOccur in any order
BOccur at the same time
COccur more than once
DOccur in a sample space
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Occur at the same time
1. Mutually exclusive events have no outcomes in common.
2. So they can never occur at the same time.
3. A number being even and the same number being odd is an example of such a pair.
_Source: Siyavula Mathematics Grade 11 (Everything Maths, CC BY 4.0), Chapter 10: Probability_
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