Mutually exclusive events are events that cannot happen at the same time while Not mutually exclusive events are events that can happen happen at the same time.
Examples of mutually exclusive events in our real life situation;
- sleep while eating at the same time
- go to mass while going to the mall at the same time
- tossing a coin because we cannot get a head and a tail at the same time
Examples of not mutually exclusive events in our real life situation.
- call and text at the same time using the same phone
- driving while calling at the same time
- getting hearts and Kings at the same time because there is King of Hearts in the deck of cards.