Answer:
Independent means that one has no effect on the other. Exclusive means one cannot happen alongside the other. In simpler terms, independent events can be thought of as the chance it'll rain and how many people are flossing their teeth in the morning. Both happen, but neither one impacts the other.
Exclusive, on the other hand, means only one can happen. Lets say at nine in the evening your favorite show is on. However, you have an early morning and should be asleep by nine. You cannot both be asleep and watching your favorite show, and so these events are exclusive.
Answer:
.
Step-by-step explanation:
Since repetition isn't allowed, there would be
choices for the first donut,
choices for the second donut, and
choices for the third donut. If the order in which donuts are placed in the bag matters, there would be
unique ways to choose a bag of these donuts.
In practice, donuts in the bag are mixed, and the ordering of donuts doesn't matter. The same way of counting would then count every possible mix of three donuts type
times.
For example, if a bag includes donut of type
,
, and
, the count
would include the following
arrangements:
Thus, when the order of donuts in the bag doesn't matter, it would be necessary to divide the count
by
to find the actual number of donut combinations:
.
Using combinatorics notations, the answer to this question is the same as the number of ways to choose an unordered set of
objects from a set of
distinct objects:
.