PROBABILITY

PROBABILITY

1. DEFINITION: It is the ratio of number of favourable outcomes to total number of outcomes

2. Experimental/Empirical Probability

3. Event

   • An event for an experiment is the collection of some outcomes of the experiment
   • The probability of an event lies between 0 and 1

4. Thearitical Probability

5. REAL LIFE EXAMPLES

   • It will probably rain today
     • Most probably, Kavita wiil stand first in exam

6. Mathematical examples

   • Tossing a coin
     • Head
     • Tail
   • Playing cards (excluding joker)
     • Red 26
       • Diamond 13
       • Heart 13
     • Black 26
       • Club 13
       • Spades 13
     • 12 face card
     • 1 ace card

7. Sample Space