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You draw a card from a standard 52 card deck. Are the events of getting a jack OR king mutually exclusive? What is the probability of getting either?

You draw a card from a standard 52 card deck. Are the events of getting a jack OR-example-1
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Two events are mutually exclusive if they cannot both occur. In a standard deck of cards, there are 4 jacks and 4 kings. We cannot get a jack and a king at the same time. It is either we get a jack or a king. Thus, the event of getting a jack OR king is

Probability of getting a jack =

Probability of getting a king =

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