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A coin is tossed three times, consider the following events.
A : 'No head appears,
B : 'Exactly one head appears' and
C: 'At least two heads appear'.
Do they form a set of mutually exclusive and exhaustive events?

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Yes, they form a set A, B and C are mutually exclusive and exhaustive events
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