Mutually Exclusive Events Worksheet
Explore the concepts of mutually exclusive events and their probabilities with this Grade 12 math worksheet.
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1. Which of the following pairs of events are mutually exclusive?
Drawing a red card and drawing an ace from a standard deck of cards.
Rolling an even number and rolling a prime number on a single die.
Picking a student who plays basketball and picking a student who plays soccer from a class.
Flipping a coin and getting heads, and flipping the same coin and getting tails.
2. If P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, and A and B are mutually exclusive events, what is P(A or B)?
0.12
0.7
0.58
0.28
1. If two events are mutually exclusive, they cannot occur at the same time.
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False
2. The probability of two mutually exclusive events both occurring is always 1.
True
False
1. If events A and B are mutually exclusive, then P(A and B) = .
2. The Addition Rule for mutually exclusive events states that P(A or B) = .
1. In a class of 30 students, 15 students play soccer, 10 students play basketball, and 5 students play both. Are the events 'playing soccer' and 'playing basketball' mutually exclusive? Explain your reasoning.
2. Consider a standard deck of 52 playing cards. Let event A be drawing a Heart, and event B be drawing a Spade. Calculate P(A or B). Show your work.
The Venn diagram below represents two events, A and B. Use the diagram to answer the following questions.
1. Based on the Venn diagram, are events A and B mutually exclusive? Explain why.
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