CHAPTER 16 - PROBABILITY

CHAPTER 16 - PROBABILITY - TEXTBOOK

Experimental probability

Experiment: A process by which you obtain an observation

Trials: Repeating an experiment a number of times

Outcome: A possible result of an experiment

Event: An outcome or set of outcomes

Sample space: The set of all possible outcomes of an experiment, always

denoted by U

An experiment is called random experiment if it satisfies the following two conditions:

(i) It has more than one possible outcome.

(ii) It is not possible to predict the outcome in advance