Name: ___________________________________________Grade & Section: _________________

Subject: Mathematics 10 Teacher: ______________________________ Score: _____________

Lesson : Quarter 3 Week 9 LAS 1

Activity Title : Illustrating Mutually Exclusive Events
Learning Target : Illustrates mutually exclusive events (M10SP-IIIi-1)
Reference(s) : Mathematics 10 Learners’ Module (Unit 3), MELC
LAS Writer : Glydel Mae V. Saragena

Mutually Exclusive Events are events that cannot occur at the same time. These are sets that
have no common elements and can never intersect.

Examples:
The following are examples of Mutually Exclusive Events.

1. Event of getting head or getting tail when tossing a coin once.

Reason: We cannot get both head and tail if we are just tossing the coin once.
2. Event of getting yellow or green ball when we draw one ball from a jar filled with blue, yellow,
orange and green balls.
Reason: We cannot draw yellow and green ball at the same time when only one ball is
allowed to be drawn.

Activity:
Identify the following events if it is mutually exclusive or not. Write ME if the events are
mutually exclusive and NME if the events are non-mutually exclusive.

_________1. Event of getting a queen or a king when drawing only one card from a deck of 52 cards.
_________2. Event of getting an ace or a heart from a standard deck of cards.
_________3. Event of getting 4 or an even number when we toss a die once.
_________4. Event of having 1 or 6 when we rolled the die once.
_________5. A spinning wheel has 2 reds, 3 blues and 5 greens. What is the event on getting blue or
green when we spin the wheel only once?
_________6. Selecting only one day in the whole calendar year. Find the event of choosing a day
from the month of October or an Odd numbered day.
_________7. Selecting only one day in the whole calendar year. Find the event of choosing a day
from July or August.
_________8. Picking one fruit from a basket filled with 4 apples, 5 pears, and 10 oranges. Find the
event of getting an apple or an orange.
_________9. Picking one card form a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the event of getting a red
card or a face card?
_________10. Selecting one student in the class with 24 males and 28 females. Find the event of
choosing a male or Anna.