Term ‘independent’ is defined in terms of ‘probability of events’
whereas mutually exclusive is defined in term of events (subset of sample space) Moreover, mutually exclusive events never have an outcome common, but
independent events, may have common outcome Clearly, ‘independent’ and
‘mutually exclusive’ do not have the same meaning In other words, two independent events having nonzero probabilities of occurrence
can not be mutually exclusive, and conversely, i