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Algebra Ch#14
Glencoe Algebra Chapter #14
Question | Definition |
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COMBINATION | AN ARRANGEMENT OR LISTING IN WHICH ORDER IS NOT IMPORTANT. |
COMPOUND EVENTS | TWO OR MORE SIMPLE EVENTS. |
DEPENDENT EVENTS | TWO OR MORE EVENTS IN WHICH THE OUTCOME OF ONE EVENT AFFECTS THE OUTCOME OF THE OTHER EVENTS. |
EMPIRICAL STUDIES | PERFORMING EXPERIMENTS REPEATEDLY, COLLECTING AND COMBINING DATA, AND ANALYZING THE RESULTS. |
EVENT | ANY COLLECTION OF ONE OR MORE OUTCOMES IN THE SAMPLE SPACE. |
EXPERIMENTAL PROBABILITY | WHAT ACTUALLY OCCURS WHEN CONDUCTING A PROBABILITY EXPERIMENT, OR THE RATIO OF RELATIVE FREQUENCY TO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF EVENTS OR TRIALS. |
FACTORIAL | THE EXPRESSION N!WHERE N IS GREATER THAN ZERO IS THE PRODUCT OF ALL POSITIVE INTEGERS BEGINNING WITH N AND COUNTING BACK TO 1. |
FUNDAMENTAL COUNTING PRINCIPLE | IF AN EVENT M CAN OCCUR IN m WAYS AND IS FOLLOWED BY EVENT N THAT CAN OCCUR IN n WAYS, THEN THE EVENT M FOLLOWED BY THE EVENT N CAN OCCUR IN M*N WAYS. |
INCLUSIVE | TWO EVENTS THAT CAN OCCUR AT THE SAME TIME. |
INDEPENDENT EVENTS | TWO OR MORE EVENTS IN WHICH THE OUTCOME OF ONE EVENT DOES NOT AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF THE OTHER EVENTS. |
MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE | EVENTS THAT CANNOT OCCUR AT THE SAME TIME. |
PERMUTATION | AN ARRANGEMENT OR LISTING IN WHICH ORDER IS IMPORTANT. |
PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION | THE PROBABILITY OF EVERY POSSIBLE VALUE OF THE RANDOM VARIABLE X. |
PROBABILITY HISTOGRAM | A WAY TO GIVE THE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FOR A RANDOM VARIABLE AND OBTAIN OTHER DATA |
RELATIVE FREQUENCY | THE NUMBER OF TIMES AN OUTCOME OCCURRED IN A PROBABILITY EXPERIMENT. |
SAMPLE SPACE | THE LIST OF ALL POSSIBLE OUTCOMES. |
SIMULATION | USING AN OBJECT TO ACT OUT AN EVENT THAT WOULD BE DIFFICULT OR IMPRACTICAL TO PERFORM. |
THEORETICAL POBABILITY | WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN IN A PROBABILITY EXPERIMENT. |
TREE DIAGRAM | A DIAGRAM USED TO SHOW THE TOTAL NUMBER OF POSSIBLE OUTCOMES. |