What is another name for mutually exclusive events?

Kassandra Mccall

Kassandra Mccall

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2022-10-03

What is another name for mutually exclusive events?

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omeopata25

omeopata25

Beginner2022-10-04Added 5 answers

Another name for mutually exclusive events would be disjoint events. Note that collectively exhaustive is not equivalent to mutual exclusivity, as if a set of events are collectively exhaustive, at least one of the events must occur.
As an example, suppose that you roll a fair six sided die once. The event that you roll a 1 is mutually exclusive with the event that you roll a 6; that is, you cannot roll both a 1 and a 6 by rolling the die a single time. However, there exists a possibility that you will roll neither a 1 nor a 6; ergo, the possibilities are not collectively exhaustive.
(As a note, if you consider six events A-F, where A is the event that you roll a 1 on a single roll of the six sided die, B is the event that you roll a 2, C the event that you roll a 3, D the event you roll a 4, E the event you roll a 5, and F the event you roll a 6, then the set of events A-F are both mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive; you must roll one of the numbers on the die when you roll the die.)

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