Reading
Read Section 1.1, “Sample spaces and events”, pages 1–5. You can skip page 4, as you will remember this from Week 4; but if you need a reminder it's there.
The important notions are:
- Sample space
- Event
- Disjoint and mutually exclusive events.
Videos
The following video describes three useful ways to think about sample spaces and events:
The following video takes you through how to work out Exercise 10 by example:
Exercises
For practice, you can try your hand at the following representative set of exercises: 2, 3, 5, and 9.