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Simple and Compound Event

An experiment...

Question

An experiment involves rolling a pair of dice and recording the number that comes up.

Suppose,

A: the sum is greater than 8.
B: 2 occurs on either die.

Then A and B are ....... events.

Favorable events

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Mutually exclusive events

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Exhaustive events

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Solution

The correct option is B
Mutually exclusive events

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