Answer to Question #109646 in Statistics and Probability for julaine

Question

a dart is thrown at the board and is likely to land on any one of the eight squares numbered 1 to 8 inclusive. A represents the event that the dart lands in 5 or 8. B represents the event that the dart lands in square 2,3 or 4. C represents the event that the dart lands in square 1,2,5 or 6.

which two events are mutually exclusive? justify your answer


draw the venn diagram for B n C

Answer 1

$P(A\cap B)=0=>$ Events A and B are mutually exclusive

$P(A\cap C)=1/8$

$P(B\cap C)=1/8$