Judge each probability claim

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Mutually exclusive events can never happen at the same time.

2. Statement is true

   No

   Statement

   One experiment can have several different sample spaces.

3. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Independent events tell you nothing about one another.

4. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Relative frequency divides the times an event occurred by the number of trials.

5. Statement is true

   No

   Statement

   A tree diagram is the quickest way to handle independent events.

6. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   A two way contingency table also records the totals for each event.

7. Statement is true

   No

   Statement

   Complementary events can both occur on the same trial.

Instructions

Tap True or False for each statement about events and their probabilities.

Explanation