SOLUTION: If we roll a pair of dice, which of the following pairs of events are mutually exclusive? Event A is rolling a 6 on the first die. Event B is getting a sum of less than 7 with the

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Question 1168694: If we roll a pair of dice, which of the following pairs of events are mutually exclusive? Event A is rolling a 6 on the first die. Event B is getting a sum of less than 7 with the two dice.
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The events A and B are mutually exclusive: they have empty intersection,

since if the first die rolling is 6, then the minimum sum of rolling two dice is 6+1 = 7.