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PROBABILITY WORDS

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  • Probability is a number between...
    0 and one
  • Outcomes with the same probability
    Equally likely outcomes
  • Where the outcome of an event does have an effect on the outcome of any further event-s
    Dependent events
  • The probability of an event and its complementary event adds up to...
    One
  • Is the chance or likelihood that a particular outcome occur.
    Probability
  • When the outcome of an event has no effect on the outcome of any further event-s
    Independent events
  • Set of all possible outcomes of any trial in a probability experiment.
    Sample space
  • The probability of an impossible event is...
    Zero
  • The probability of the sample space is...
    One
  • When an event has no chance to happen, it is...
    Impossible event
  • Result of one trial in a probability experiment
    Outcome
  • One or more favourable outcomes of a probability experiment. A subset of the sample space.
    Event
  • All outcomes that are not the event
    Complement of an event
  • One element of the sample space
    Sample point
  • synonymous with probability experiment
    Trial
  • Laplace Rule: probability equals to:
    Favourable outcomes over possible outcomes
  • Formula to work out the probability when every outcome has the same chance
    Laplace Rule