AP BIOLOGY

HEREDITY

BASICS OF PROBABILITY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
An event is
A
a result you could get in an experiment
B
the set of all possible outcomes
C
a set of one or more outcomes
D
the liklihood ngsomething happening
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -An event is collection of one or more outcomes from an experiment.

Detailed explanation-2: -For example, throwing a six-sided die is an experiment. Only one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 can be obtained as a result. On the other hand, an event is the collection of one or several results of an experiment.

Detailed explanation-3: -A set of all possible outcomes of an experiment is called a sample space.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sets of outcomes: events An event containing exactly one outcome is called an elementary event. The event that contains all possible outcomes of an experiment is its sample space. A single outcome can be a part of many different events.

Detailed explanation-5: -A set of outcomes to which a probability is assigned is called an event.

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