definitinos

Question 1

What is a simple event

Answer 1

a simple event is where one event happens at a time and has a single outcome

Question 2

what are Trials/Compound events

Answer 2

One repetition of an experiment or series of simple events ( ex 20 simple events considered)

Question 3

random variable and discrete random variable

Answer 3

Random variable
A variable whose value corresponds to the outcomes of a random event

Discrete random variable
A variable that assumes a unique value for each outcome

Question 4

probability defintions

Answer 4

S = Sample space
A collection or a set of all possible outcomes of a random experiment.

A =Event space
A collection of outcomes that correspond to the event of interest

n(S)
The number of elements in the sample space