DMP 7.2: Sample Spaces and Events

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:

Media Hopper link: Different ways to think about subsets

The following video takes you through how to work out Exercise 10 by example:

Media Hopper link: C&D& Section 1.1.4 Exercise 7 on page 6

Exercises

For practice, you can try your hand at the following representative set of exercises: C&D Section 1.1.4 Exercises 2, 3, 5, and 9 on pages 5–7.