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Chapter 5: Q 5.1. (page 200)

Roughly speaking, What is an experiment? an event?

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An experiment is a procedure with a predetermined set of outcomes.

An experiment's event is a collection or set of its results.

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Step 1. Given information.

The given statement is:

Roughly speaking, What is an experiment? an event?

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Step 2. Define an experiment.

An experiment is a method of determining the outcome of a situation where the conclusion cannot be predicted with certainty.

In other words, An experiment is a process with a well-defined set of possible outcomes that can be finite or endless. For example, suppose the experiment involves tossing a coin once and the sample space has two outcomes: head and tail.

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Step 3. Define event.

An experiment's event is a collection or set of its results.

This set is either a subset of the sample space or equal to it.

For example, suppose the experiment involves tossing a coin once and the sample space has two outcomes: head and tail.

Assume that the outcome from the toss of a coin toss is a "head".

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Family Size.Refer to Exercise 5.24.

(a) Which, if any, of the events in parts (a)-(e) are certain? impossible?

(b) Determine the probability of each event identified in part (a).

Which of the following numbers could not possibly be a probability? Justify your answer.

a. 5/6

b. 3.5

c. 0

Dice. Refer to the image below and for each of the following events, list the outcomes that constitute the event in words

  1. (not A)
  2. (A & B )
  3. (B or C)

When one die is rolled, following outcomes are possible :

Construct a venn diagram that portrays four events A, B ,C and D that have the following properties: Events A, B and D mutually exclusive: events A,B and D are mutually exclusive: no other three of the four events are mutually exclusive

How do you graphically portray the probability distribution of a discrete random variable?
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