Mutually Exclusive and Inclusive Events: Examples, Statistical Note 41

Mutually Exclusive Events: Two events are mutually exclusive if they cannot occur at the same time. In tossing of a coin, either of head or tail flips meaning they are mutually exclusive. An occurrence of head excludes an occurrence of tail in the same toss. 

In another example of drawing a card from the deck of 52 cards, the occurrence of an ace card excludes cards of other ranks, two to ten, jack, queen and king.

Mutually Inclusive Events: Two events are mutually inclusive or non-exclusive if the occur of an event does not exclude the occurrence of another event at the same time. In drawing a card from the deck of 52 cards, the occurrence of an ace card does not exclude the occurrence of a club card. Because, both identities - ace as a rank and club as a suit exist on the same card.