Probability of Simple Events
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| Probability | The measure of how likely the event is to occur.
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| Experiment | An activity involving chance.
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| Trial | Each repetition or observation of an experiment.
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| Outcome | The result of a trial.
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| Event | A set of one or more outcomes.
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| Likely | An event that has a probability to occur more than 1/2, but less than 1.
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| Unlikely | An event that has a probability to occur more than 0, but less than 1/2.
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| Certain | An event that has a probability of 1 to occur, or 100%.
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| Impossible | An event that has a probability of 0 to occur.
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| As Likely As Not | An event that has a probability of 1/2 to occur, or 50%.
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| Theoretical Probability | Used to find the probability of an event when all outcomes are equally likely. This is used to make predictions BEFORE performing an experiment.
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| Complement | The set of all outcomes that are NOT the event.
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| Experimental Probability | The probability of an event based on what has already happened.
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| Independent Events | the result of the second event is not affected by the result of the first event.
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| Dependent Events | the probability of one event occurring influences the likelihood of the other event.
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