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Two events that cannot occur simultaneously are:

Answer: Mutually exclusive events.

  • A Independent events
  • B Equally likely events
  • C Mutually exclusive events
  • D Complementary events

Correct answer: C. Mutually exclusive events

Explanation: Mutually exclusive (disjoint) events cannot both happen at the same time. P(A ∩ B) = 0.

UABA and BA onlyB onlyOutside both circles: complement of (A union B)

Venn diagram of the universal set U with events A and B, showing the intersection (A and B), the parts unique to each event, and the complement region outside both.

Concept context

Chance, events, conditional probability, and Bayes theorem

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