Applied MathematicsProbability Theory |
What are mutually exclusive events? |
Mutually exclusive events are those that are impossible to occur together. For example, a subject in a study of male and female humans can’t be both male and female. Males are males; females are females. Thus, depending on what the study is about (such as a study of how many males versus females go to college from a certain high school), both “events” will be mutually exclusive.