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    Jun 7, 2010, 02:41 PM
    its about probability
    Which of the ffg pairs of outcomes is not mutually exclusive

    Drawing a single card from a deck and gettting a black card and a heart
    Getting a five hand card with two queens and 3 blacks
    Rolling two dice and getting a sum of 7 and pairs
    Flipping a sinlge coin and getting a heads and tails
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    Jun 8, 2010, 08:21 AM

    If two things are mutually exclusive, it means they cannot happen at the same time. In maths we say that there is not intersection, or in symbols;



    where A and B are events.
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