HEREDITY
BASICS OF PROBABILITY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Getting a sum of 6 in rolling a dice.
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Choosing a “King” from a deck of cards.
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Rolling an “even number.”
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Getting a Tail when tossing a coin.
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Detailed explanation-1: -When we flip a coin a very large number of times, we find that we get half heads, and half tails. We conclude that the probability to flip a head is 1/2, and the probability to flip a tail is 1/2.
Detailed explanation-2: -A simple event is one that can only happen in one way-in other words, it has a single outcome. If we consider our previous example of tossing a coin: we get one outcome that is a head or a tail.
Detailed explanation-3: -An example of a simple event, when a coin is tossed, is either getting a head or getting a tail. These outcomes represent one characteristics, and it cannot be further subdivided.
Detailed explanation-4: -In probability terms, a simple event refers to an event with a single outcome, for example, getting “heads” with a single toss of a coin, or rolling a 4 on a die.