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Mutually Exclusive Events

The document discusses mutually exclusive events and provides examples to illustrate the concept. Two events are mutually exclusive if they cannot occur at the same time. The examples show applying this concept to outcomes of dice rolls, card draws, and rolling two dice to determine if events are mutually exclusive or not.

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309 views9 pages

Mutually Exclusive Events

The document discusses mutually exclusive events and provides examples to illustrate the concept. Two events are mutually exclusive if they cannot occur at the same time. The examples show applying this concept to outcomes of dice rolls, card draws, and rolling two dice to determine if events are mutually exclusive or not.

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Mutually Exclusive

Events
Two events are mutually exclusive if they
cannot occur at the same time.

The two events are such that


E1 ∩ E2 = Φ

The two sets E1 and E2 have no elements in


common and their intersection is an empty set
since they cannot occur at the same time. 
Using Venn diagram, two events that are not mutually
exclusive may be represented as follows:

E1 ∩ E2 = {c} , the intersection of the two events


E1 and E2 is not an empty set
Example 1: 

A die is rolled. Let us define event E1 as the set of


possible outcomes where the number on the face of
the die is even and event E2 as the set of possible
outcomes where the number on the face of the die
is odd. Are event E1 and E2 mutually exclusive?
Solution to Example 1: 

We first list the elements of E1 and E2. 

E1 = {2,4,6} E2 = {1,3,5} 

E1 and E2 have no elements in common and


therefore are mutually exclusive. 
Example 2: 

A die is rolled. Event E1 is the set of possible


outcomes where the number on the face of the die
is even and event E2 as the set of possible outcomes
where the number on the face of the die is greater
than 3. Are event E1 and E2 mutually exclusive?

Solution to Example 2: 

E1 = {2,4,6}  E2 = {4,5,6}

Subsets E1 and E2 have 2 elements in common. If the


die shows 4 or 6, both events E1 and E2 will have
occurred at the same time and therefore E1 and E2
are not mutually exclusive.
Example 3: 
A card is drawn from a deck of cards. Events
E1, E2, E3, E4 and E5 are defined
as follows: 
E1: Getting an 8 
E1 = { } 
E2: Getting a king 
E2 = { } 

E3: Getting a face card 


E3 = { } 
E4: Getting an ace 
E4 = { } 
E5: Getting a heart 
E5 = { } 
E1 = { }  E2 = { } 

E3 = { }  E4 = { } 

E5 = { } 

a) Are events E1 and E2 mutually exclusive?  mutually exclusive

b) Are events E2 and E3 mutually exclusive? Not mutually exclusive

c) Are events E3 and E4 mutually exclusive?  mutually exclusive

d) Are events E4 and E5 mutually exclusive? Not mutually exclusive

e) Are events E5 and E1 mutually exclusive? Not mutually exclusive


Example 4: Two dice are rolled. We define events
E1, E2, E3 and E4 as follows 
E1: Getting a sum equal to 10 
E1 = { (4,6), (5,5), (6,4) }
E2: Getting a double 
E2 = { (1,1), (2,2), (3,3), (4,4), (5,5),
(6,6) }

E3: Getting a sum less than 4 


E3 = { (1,1), (1,2), (2,1) }
E4: Getting a sum less to 7 
E4 = { (1,1), (1,2), (1,3), S = { (1,1), (1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (1,5), (1,6)
(2,1), (2,2), (2,3), (2,4), (2,5), (2,6)
(1,4), (1,5), (2,1), (2,2), (3,1), (3,2), (3,3), (3,4), (3,5), (3,6)
(2,3), (2,4), (3,1), (3,2), (4,1), (4,2), (4,3), (4,4), (4,5), (4,6)
(3,3),(4,1), (4,2),(5,1) } (5,1), (5,2), (5,3), (5,4), (5,5), (5,6)
(6,1), (6,2), (6,3), (6,4), (6,5), (6,6) }
E1 = { (4,6), (5,5), (6,4) } E2 = { (1,1), (2,2), (3,3), (4,4), (5,5),
(6,6) }

E4 = { (1,1), (1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (1,5),


E3 = { (1,1), (1,2), (2,1) } (2,1), (2,2), (2,3), (2,4), (3,1), (3,2),
(3,3),(4,1), (4,2),(5,1) }

a) Are events E1 and E2 mutually exclusive? 


Not mutually exclusive

b) Are events E2 and E3 mutually exclusive? 

Not mutually exclusive

c) Are events E3 and E4 mutually exclusive? 

Not mutually exclusive

d) Are events E4 and E1 mutually exclusive?

mutually exclusive

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