Definitions and Facts from the NSW Year 11 Probability Maths Topic
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| probability | the chance of something happening
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| sample space | the set of all possible outcomes
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| outcome | an element of the sample space
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| equally likely outcomes | an equal chance of occurring
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| multistage event | consists of two or more events
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| table | an arrangement of information in rows and columns
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| tree diagram | a diagram which details the outcomes of a multistage event
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| range of probability | probabilities range from 0 to 1
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| impossible | a probability of 0
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| certain | a probability of 1
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| complementary events | probability of an event and its complement will sum to 1
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| relative frequency | an estimate for the probability of an event
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| expected frequency | the number of times that a particular event should occur
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| simulation | a mathematical model that represents a real experiment or situation.
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