Experimental Probability
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| Certain | Will always happen.
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| Compound Events | An event made up of two or more simple events.
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| Dependent Event | An event which does affect the outcome of another event.
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| Equally likely outcome | Outcomes for an event that have the same chance of occurring.
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| Even Chance | Equal chance of occurring or not occurring.
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| Event | One outcome or a collection of outcomes in the sample space of an experiment.
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| Experiment | An activity or process where the result is unknown.
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| Impossible | Will never happen.
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| Independent Event | An event which does not affect the outcome of another event.
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| Outcome | A result of an experiment.
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| Probability | The calculated chance of something happening.
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| Random | To choose so that the outcome is likely to happen.
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| Relative frequency | The frequency of an event divided by the total number of frequencies.
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| Sample Space | The list of possible outcomes.
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| Theoretical Probability | The probability of an event that is determined by considering the possible outcomes.
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| Tree Diagram | A diagram that uses branches to illustrate all possible outcomes of an experiment.
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| Two Way Table | A table that presents data in rows and columns.
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| Venn Diagram | A diagram for representing sets.
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| Very Likely | Will usually happen.
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| Very Unlikely | Usually won't happen.
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| theoretical probability | ratio of the number of ways in which an event can occur to the total number of equally likely outcomes
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| experimental probability | ratio of the number of times the event occurs to the number of trials
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| You flip a coin 100 times and it lands on heads 53 times. Probability for flipping heads. | 53/100
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| You flip a coin 100 times and it lands on heads 53 times. Probability for NOT flipping heads. | 47/100
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| You flip a coin 100 times and it lands on heads 53 times. Probability for flipping tails. | 47/100
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| You flip a coin 100 times and it lands on heads 53 times. Probability for NOT flipping tails. | 53/100
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| You have a group of 2 baseballs and 6 footballs. Probability for selecting a football. | 3/4
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| You have a group of 2 baseballs and 6 footballs. Probability for selecting a baseball. | 1/4
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