Basic Concepts of Probability

The vocabulary needed to reason mathematically about random events.

Key Terms

  • Random Experiment — an experiment whose outcome cannot be predicted with certainty
  • Sample Space — the set of all possible outcomes
  • Event — a subset of the sample space

Classical Probability

$$P(E) = \frac{\text{Number of favourable outcomes}}{\text{Total number of outcomes}}$$
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