SOLUTION: When 2 events are mutually exclusive, their Venn diagrams overlap. True or False

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Question 660004: When 2 events are mutually exclusive, their Venn diagrams overlap.
True
or
False

Answer by math-vortex(648)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is false because mutually exclusive events cannot both occur at the same time.
If the circles in a Venn Diagram overlap, it means that some events occur at the same time.

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