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Question
An experiment consists of tossing a coin and then throwing it second time if a head occurs. If a tail occurs on the first toss, then a die is rolled once. Find the sample space.
Solution
A coin has two faces: head (H) and tail (T).
A die has six faces that are numbered from 1 to 6, with one number on each face.
Thus, in the given experiment, the sample space is given by
S = {HH, HT, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6}
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