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Given information

 and  are mutually exclusive events. 

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The following formula is used:

 

Given that and are mutually exclusive events.

Therefore,

 

The occurrence of one event completely determine the probability of the other event, which is zero in this case. Thus, both events cannot occur at same time, and therefore the events are dependent on each other.

 

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
Openstax
ISBN: 9781938168208

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