Question

You are driving in a car with your brother and your sister. As you approach the next corner, your brother tells you to turn left, but your sister tells you to turn right. Let event A be doing what your brother tells you and event B is doing what your sister says. We can conclude that events A and B are:

Answer 1

Answer: d. mutually exclusive

Explanation:

Mutually exclusive events are those events that cannot happen at the same time. If one event happens, the other has a zero chance of happening at the same time.

Event A and Event B here are Mutually Exclusive because you cannot turn left and right at the same time. If you listen to your brother and turn left, you cannot also listen to your sister and turn right at the same time.