Final answer:
The statement is false; mutually exclusive events cannot occur at the same time, so if one happens, the other cannot.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement is false. Mutually exclusive events are events that cannot occur at the same time. This means that if one event occurs, the other cannot. For instance, when flipping a coin, the event of landing on heads and the event of landing on tails are mutually exclusive because they cannot happen simultaneously. If two events A and B are mutually exclusive, the probability of both events occurring together, denoted as P(A AND B), is zero.