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What is a random experiment?
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It is a process leading to two or more possible outcomes with uncertainty as to which outcome will occur
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What is a basic outcome?
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They are the possible outcomes of a random experiment
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What is the sample space?
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It is the set of all the basic outcomes
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What is an event?
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Any subset of a basic outcome from the sample space
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What is an intersection of events?
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The set of all basic outcomes that belong to both A and B
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What is mutually exclusive?
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When the events A and B have no common basic outcomes; their intersection is said to be the empty set indicating that the intersection cannot occur.
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What is a union?
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The set of all basic outcomes that belong to at least one of these two events. The union occurs if and only if either A or B or both occur
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What is collectively exhaustive?
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If a union occurs the events are said to be collectively exhaustive.
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What is a complement?
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The set of basic outcomes that belong to S but not A are said to be complement of A
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