Posted by : Unknown Tuesday 21 June 2016

What is Probability?
= Probability is the chance that something will happen - how likely it is that some event will happen,




Example 1:
Suppose a coin is flipped 3 times. What is the probability of getting two tails and one head?
Solution: For this experiment, the sample space consists of 8 sample points.

S = {TTT, TTH, THT, THH, HTT, HTH, HHT, HHH}
Each sample point is equally likely to occur, so the probability of getting any particular sample point is 1/8. The event "getting two tails and one head" consists of the following subset of the sample space.
A = {TTH, THT, HTT}
The probability of Event A is the sum of the probabilities of the sample points in A. Therefore,
P(A) = 1/8 + 1/8 + 1/8 = 3/8
**In this case,you can use a tree diagram to look at which is getting two tails and one head faced coin.

Example 2:
Two dice are thrown together.
Use a tree diagram to find the probability that one number is even and the other is odd.

There are six possible scores on one die: {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
Of these, three are even: {2, 4, 6} and three are odd: {1, 3, 5}





So, the tree diagram looks like this:


So the probability that one number is even and the other is odd



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  1. hi its me again i got some question on prabability too, here it is.

    Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?

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  2. oh hi, to answer your question all you need to do is.

    S = {1, 2, 3, 4, ...., 19, 20}.
    Let E = event of getting a multiple of 3 or 5 = {3, 6 , 9, 12, 15, 18, 5, 10, 20}.
    P(E) = n(E/n(S)= 9/20

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