QProbability of getting either a King or Queen card in a deck of cards is an example of __________.
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Non-mutually Exclusive Event
A non-mutually exclusive event is an event that can occur simultaneously with another event. In this case, drawing either a King or a Queen card from a deck of cards are not mutually exclusive events, since a card can be both a King and a Queen (the Queen of Hearts, for example). The probability of drawing either a King or a Queen card is calculated by adding the probability of drawing a King card to the probability of drawing a Queen card, minus the probability of drawing a card that is both a King and a Queen (which is zero in this case).
In contrast, mutually exclusive events are events that cannot occur at the same time, such as drawing a King card and a Queen card from the same deck of cards. Simple events are the most basic outcomes of an experiment, while exhaustive events cover all possible outcomes of an experiment.
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