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Question
Three coins are tossed. Describe. two events A and B which are mutually exclusive.
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Solution
When three coins are tossed, the sample space is given by
S = {HHH, HHT, HTH, HTT, THH, THT, TTH, TTT}
(i) The two events that are mutually exclusive are as follows:
A: getting no heads
B: getting no tails
This is because sets A = {HHH} and B = {TTT} are disjoint.
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