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Ch.10 Probability
7th Math
Question | Answer |
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outcome | one possible result of a probability event |
simple events | one outcome or a collection of outcomes |
probability | The chance that some event will happen. It is the ratio of the number of ways a certain event can occur to the number of possible outcomes. |
complementary events | The events of one outcome hapening and that outcome not happening are complementary events. The sum of the probabilities of complementary events is 1. |
sample space | the set of all possible outcomes of a probability experiment |
compound (composite) event | an event consisting or two or more simple events |
independent events | two or more events in which the outcome of one event does not affect the outcome of the other event(s) |
fair game | a game in which players of equal skill have an equal chance of winning |
dependent events | the outcome of one event affects the outcome of the other event |