SOLUTION: A single ball is drawn from an urn containing 10 ball numbered 1 through 10. Determine for each: i) Are the events mutually exclusive? Why or why not? ii) Determine the probab

Question 1087873: A single ball is drawn from an urn containing 10 ball numbered 1 through 10.
Determine for each:
i) Are the events mutually exclusive? Why or why not?
ii) Determine the probability.
a) An even-numbered ball or a ball with a number greater than 7.
b) An odd numbered ball or a ball with a number less than 5.
c) An even numbered ball or an odd numbered ball.

Answer by ikleyn(52858) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A single ball is drawn from an urn containing 10 ball numbered 1 through 10.
Determine for each:

i) Are the events mutually exclusive?  Why or why not?    - What events ? The condition tells about ONE event only.  
                                                            Read the condition and your question attentively.

Comment from student: you was suppose to answer a b and c with the i and ii for each question.

My response: First learn how to formulate the problem and how to ask a question.

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