You roll a fair six-sided die with the hopes of rolling a 5 or a 6. These two events are ___________ because they have no sample points in common.
A) independent events
B) posterior events
C) mutually exclusive events
D) complements

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Mutually exclusive events are events that cannot occur at the same time. In this case, rolling a 5 and rolling a 6 are mutually exclusive events because a single roll of the die cannot result in both at the same time. Therefore, they have no sample points in common.

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