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What are two events that cannot happen at the same time called?

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Benny Auer


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Annu Bijoy

When two events cannot happen at the same time it is called mutually exclusive.

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Tarania Amirthalingam

If two events cannot occur at the same time, they are mutually exclusive.

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They are called mutually exclusive events

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Hi Mr. Benny Auer,


Events that cannot occur at the same time are called 'mutually exclusive'. Examples of mutually exclusive events include a coin toss (we cannot have both heads and tails during the same toss).


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events which can't both happen i.e p(AnB)=0 are mutually exclusive

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Cyril Subing Subing

In statistics and probability, two events that cannot occur at the same time is called Mutually Exclusive Events. For example when you toss a coin, the event of getting a head or a tail are mutually exclusive events because it will never happen that you will get head and a tail at the same time. You will only have an outcome of a landing a head or landing a tail but not both.

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Liam Ball

Mutually exclusive events

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Dhanush Vydyam

They are said to be mutually exclusive.

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Ciaran Johnson

Mutually exclusive events

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Two events that cannot occur at the same time are known as "Mutually Exclusive" events. One of the simplest examples of this is a coin toss, Head and Tails cannot occur at the same time.

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Sherri A

Hi, they are called 'mutually exclusive'.

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Georgia Sanni

Mutually exclusive events

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Theodore Brook

These events are Mutually Exclusive.

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Samuel Lubega

Mutually exclusive

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