In: Statistics and Probability
The four members of a famous rock band are Trent, Chance, John and Colin. They are trying to decide what order to come out of the dressing room for a concert in front of thousands of adoring fans. How many ways can they do this? If you feel ambitious, use the letters T, Ch, J and Co to represent the band members and give all possible orders in which they can go onstage Two events are called mutually exclusive if they are disjoint sets. (Remember that this means they have no elements in common.)