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Chapter 13: Q. 2 (page 864)

The _____ of an event E is the set of all outcomes in the sample space S that are not outcomes in the event E.

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complement

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The _____ of an event Eis the set of all outcomes in the sample space Sthat are not outcomes in the event E.

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The complement of an event Eis the set of all outcomes in the sample space Sthat are not outcomes in the event E.

Just like the complement of a set, in events if the set contains all the outcomes on sample space Sthat are not in the outcomes in event E, we call it the complement of an event E.

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