EXPERIMENT. OUTCOME, SAMPLE SPACE , AND EVENT

When you conduct an experiment, what are you observing?

• Outcomes

• Sample spaces

• Subsets

• Probabilities

Which of the following is an experiment?

• Counting the number of marbles in a jar.

• Measuring the volume of the jar.

• Choosing a marble from the jar.

• Determine the weight of the jar.

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Which of the following is an outcome?

• Rolling a die.

• Getting a red marble from a jar full of different colored marbles.

• Flipping a coin.

• None of the above.

A card is draw from a box containing cards numbered 2, 4, 6, 8, ...., 20 (multiples of 2). Write down the sample space S. What is the total number of possible outcomes, n(S)?

• 20

• 10

• 5

• 2

Two dice are thrown and the values of both dice are multiplied. What is the total number of possible outcomes n(S)?

• 36

• 18

• 12

• 6