Finding the likelihood of an event
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| Experiment | An activity involving chance in which results are observed
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| Trial | Each observation of an experiment is a trial
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| Outcome | Each result is an outcome.
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| Event | A set of one or more outcomes is an event
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| Probability of an event {written P(event)} | It measures the likelihood that the event would occur
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| Impossible | 0/0% chance that it would happen
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| Unlikely | It could happen, but could not happen because there is little of it (it is uncertain)
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| As likely as not | There is a fifty-fifty chance that something could happen
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| Likely | There is a lot of it, but all of it isn't that kind
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| Certain | It is 100% sure that it is going to happen
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| Sample space | A set of all possible outcomes of an event
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| Probability of an event | number of times the event occurs/ total number of equally likely possible outcomes.
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