Question

rolling a pair of dice and getting doubles or a sum of 8 find probability and if it is mutually exclusive

Answer 1

They are not mutually exclusive

Explanation:

Let A be the event of getting a sum of 6 on dice.

Let B be the events of getting doubles .

A={ (1,5), (2,4), (3,3), (4,2), (5,1) }

B = { (1,1) , (2,2), (3,3), (4,4), (5,5), (6,6) }

Since we know that Mutaullty exclusive events are those when there is no common event between two events.

i.e. there is empty set of intersection.

But we can see that there is one element which is common i.e. (3,3).

So, n(A∩B) = 1 ≠ ∅