SOLUTION: Which of the following pairs of events are mutually exclusive? I. A golfer scoring the lowest 18-hole round in a 72-hole tournament and losing the tournament. II. A poker playe

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Question 1099536: Which of the following pairs of events are mutually exclusive?
I. A golfer scoring the lowest 18-hole round in a 72-hole tournament and losing the tournament.
II. A poker player getting a flush (all cards in the same suit) and 3 of a kind on the same 5-card hand.
III. A mother giving birth to a baby girl and a set of twin daughters on the same day.
IV. A chess player losing the last game and winning the match.
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In logic and probability theory, two propositions (or events) are mutually exclusive or disjoint if they cannot both be true (occur). A clear example is the set of outcomes of a single coin toss, which can result in either heads or tails, but not both.