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A coin is tossed. If it shows tail, we draw a ball from a box which contains 2 red 3 black balls; if it shows head, we throw a die. Find the sample space of this experiment. - Mathematics

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A coin is tossed. If it shows tail, we draw a ball from a box which contains 2 red 3 black balls; if it shows head, we throw a die. Find the sample space of this experiment.

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The box contains two red balls and three black balls.
Let us denote the red balls as R1 and R2 and the three black balls as B1, B2 and B3.
The sample space of this experiment is given by
S = {(T, R1), (T, R2), (T, B1), (T, B2), (T, B3),  (H, 1), (H, 2), (H, 3), (H, 4), (H, 5), (H, 6)} 

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Chapter 33: Probability - Exercise 33.1 [Page 7]

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