alleryStart learning →What is the sample space of an experiment?
AThe most likely outcome of the trial
BAny single subset of the outcomes
CThe set of all possible outcomes
DThe chance attached to each outcome
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. The set of all possible outcomes
1. The sample space gathers every result the experiment could produce.
2. For a single six-sided number cube it is the set 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
3. Its size supplies the denominator when outcomes are equally likely.
4. A subset of it is an event, so a single subset is smaller than the sample space itself.
_Source: OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry (CC BY 4.0), Ch 13 "Sequences, Probability and Counting Theory", section 13.7 Probability_
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