A product that is produced at Ramsey Manufacturing goes through three steps to be built. At step one, the components are assembled by technicians. At step two, the product is sanded, and at step three the product is painted. The product can become defective if any of these three steps is performed incorrectly. The three steps are done by different people in different locations. We let D1 = defect introduced at step 1, D2 = defect introduced at step 2, and D3 = defect introduced at step three. Based on this situation these three events would be considered to be mutually exclusive.

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The events D1, D2, and D3 are not mutually exclusive because a product can have defects introduced at more than one step in the process. For example, a product could have defects from both step 1 and step 2.

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