Chapter 9 Vocabulary
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| Combination | An arrangement, or listing, of objects in which order is not important.
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| Complementary Event | The events of one outcome happening and that outcome not happening are complementary events. The sum of the probabilities of complementary events is 1.
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| Compound Event | An event consisting of two or more simple events
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| Dependent Events | Two or more events in which the outcome of one event affects the outcome of the other event(s).
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| Disjoint Events | Events that cannot happen at the same time.
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| Experimental Probability | An estimated probability based on the relative frequency of positive outcomes occurring during an experiment.
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| Fundamental Counting Principle | Uses multiplication of the number of ways each event in an experiment can occur to find the number of possible outcomes in a sample space.
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| Independent Events | Two or more events in which the outcome of one event does not affect the outcome of the other event(s).
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| Outcome | One possible result of a probability event. For example, 4 is an outcome when a number cube is rolled.
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| Permutation | An arrangement, or listing, of objects in which order is important.
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| 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.
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| Random | Outcomes occur at random if each outcome is equally likely to occur.
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| Sample Space | The set of all possible outcomes of a probability experiment.
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| Simple Event | One outcome or a collection of outcomes.
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| Theoretical Probability | The ratio of the number of ways an event can occur to the number of possible outcomes.
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| Tree Diagram | A diagram used to show the total number of possible outcomes in a probability experiment.
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