Question

When a customer enters a store there are three outcomes that can occur: buy nothing, buy a small amount, or buy a large amount. In this situation, if a customer buys a large amount, he or she cannot also buy a small amount or buy nothing. Thus the events are:

Answer 1

mutually exclusive events

Step-by-step explanation:

mutually exclusive events

it is a term normally used in statics which defined 2 or more events cannot overlapped each other. Mean to say that if one even occur at any particular time then other event cannot occur. it describe replacement of one event by other one.

examples of mutually exclusive events are

1 - occurrence of day and night at same time at same place is mutually exclusive.

2 - occurrence of head and tail at same time is mutually exclusive.