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Decide if the events A and B are mutually exclusive or not mutually exclusive. A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 playing cards.

Event A: The Result is a club
Event B: The result is a king

Are they mutually exclusive or not mutually exclusive?

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The events A and B are not mutually exclusive, since there is one card (the king of clubs) that satisfies both conditions (i.e., it is both a club and a king).

In general, two events are mutually exclusive if they cannot both occur at the same time, meaning that there is no overlap between them. In this case, since there is one card that is both a club and a king, the events A and B are not mutually exclusive.
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