Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

In order to use Venn diagrams when talking about events, we must first understand the term 'mutually exclusive'. Imagine there are two events: event A and event B. If they both cannot happen at the ...

Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of Science in Journalism. She has worked in multiple cities covering breaking news, politics, education, and more.

Sometimes we want to know the probability of getting one result or another. The OR rule can help us here if the two results are mutually exclusive. Mutually exclusive means that the two outcomes of ...