Ahigh school science teacher has 78 students. of those students, 35 are in the band and 32 are on a sports team. there are 16 students who are not in the band or on a sports team. one student from the 78 students will be selected at random. let event bb represent the event of selecting a student in the band, and let event ss represent the event of selecting a student on a sports team. are bb and ss mutually exclusive events?

No, these events SS and BB are not mutually exclusive

Explanation:

Mutually exclusive events are the ones that cannot happen at the same time. Flipping a coin is an example of a mutually exclusive event since you can get heads or tails but you can't have the outcome of both.

In this question, there are 5 people who are in a band and doing sports at the same time. Therefore you have a chance to select a student who does both which makes these events not mutually exclusive.

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