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Question
Define an event.
Solution
What are the meanings of event?
The word event means something that result.
Definition:
An event is a collection of outcomes of a trial of a random experiment.
To illustrate the definition, let us take examples:
1. When two coins are tossed simultaneously, the possible outcomes are HH, HT, TH and TT. Any one outcome like HH is called an event (elementary event). The collections like {HH, HT}, {HH, HT, TT} etc are all events (compound event).
2. In the experiment of rolling a dice, the possible outcomes are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Any one outcome like 4 is called an event (elementary event). The collections like {1, 2}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 5, 6}, {2, 3, 4, 5} etc are all events (compound events).
Note that H stands for getting a head and T stands for getting a tail in the experiment of tossing a coin.
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