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Question
An experiment consists of tossing a coin and then tossing it second time if head occurs. If a tail occurs on the first toss, then a die is tossed once. Find the sample space.
Solution
A coin has two faces: a head (H) and a tail (T).
A dice has six faces that are numbered from 1 to 6, with one number on each face.
Thus, the sample space of the given experiment is given by
S = {(H, H), (H, T), (T, 1), (T, 2), (T, 3), (T, 4), (T, 5), (T, 6)}
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