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How do you differentiate between mutually exclusive and independent events? Please explain with examples. And why cant they happen together?

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independent means they can both happen, and do not affect each other.

Like two consecutive rolls of a die. Rolling a 3 and then a 6 are independent, and can both happen.

Mutually exclusive events cannot both happen, such as flipping a coin and getting both a head and a tail.

google will provide lots of examples.
Thank you sir :)
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