Probability Vocabulary

the result of a single trial of an experiment

• outcome

• event

• income

• probability

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

a situation involving chance that leads to results, or outcomes

• experiment

• simple event

• probability

• compound event

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

a list of all possible outcomes of an experiment

typically in closed {brackets} with commas between the outcomes

• sample space

• simple event

• theoretical probability

• tree diagram

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.MD.A.1

CCSS.HSS.MD.A.3

one or a group of possible outcomes for a given situation

• event

• simple event

• probability

• probability model

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

an event consisting of one outcome

• simple event

• event

• probability

• equally likely

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

a measure of the likelihood that an event will occur

a way of assigning numerical value to the chance than an event will occur

often written as

P(event)

• probability

• experiment

• event

• outcome

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CCSS.HSS.MD.A.1

the way to determine probability is:

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

when the probabilities of all the outcomes of an experiment are equal

• equally likely

• probability

• theoretical probability

• uniform probability model

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CCSS.HSS.CP.B.8

the way to find experimental probability is:

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.1

the mathematical calculation that an event will happen in theory

• theoretical probability

• experimental probability

• probability

• complementary events

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CCSS.HSS.MD.A.3