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5357016227probabilitya number between 0 and 1 that describes the proportion of times the outcome would occur in a very long series of repetitions0
5357037958simulationA method of modeling chance behavior that accurately mimics the situation being considered.1
5357056803law of large numbersin the long run, as the sample size increases, the relative frequencies of outcomes approach the theoretical probability2
5831363431sample spaceThe set of all possible outcomes3
5831365243probability modeldescription of some chance process that consists of two parts: a sample space S and the probability of each outcome4
5831370072eventa collection of outcomes from some chance process, a subset of the sample space5
5831372392mutually exclusive (disjoint)two events that have no outcomes in common and therefore can never occur together6
5831376848complement of an eventconsists of all possible outcomes in a sample space that are NOT part of the event7
5831379134Addition Rule for Mutually Exclusive EventsP(A or B) = P(A) + P (B)8
5831381638General Addition Rule for Two EventsP(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B)9
5831387327IntersectionP(A and B)10
5831387955UnionP(A or B)11
5831391698conditional probabilityThe probability of an event occurring given that another has occurred. The probability of A given that B has occurred is denoted as P(A|B).12
5831393816General Multiplication RuleThe probability that events A and B both occur can be found using the formula P(A ∩ B) = P(A) ∙ P(B | A)13
5831398305tree diagramUsed to display the sample space for a chance process that involves a sequence of outcomes.14
5831400220independent eventsThe outcome of one event does not affect the outcome of the second event15
5831404726Multiplication Rule for Independent eventsP(A and B) = P(A) x P(B)16

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