Lesson: Mutually Exclusive Events Mathematics • 10th Grade

In this lesson, we will learn how to identify mutually exclusive events and non-mutually exclusive events and find their probabilities.

Lesson Plan

Students will be able to

understand the conditions required for events to be mutually exclusive: ,
identify mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events when given sufficient probabilities or a representative Venn diagrams,
find missing probabilities using the conditions for mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events.

Q1:

Which of the following is true if ?

Q2:

Given that and are two mutually exclusive events in a sample space of a random experiment, determine .

Q3:

Suppose and are mutually exclusive events. Determine .