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Chapter 1
Probability as area
Outcomes, events, and why every probability is a share of one square. The square will come back in every chapter.
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Outcomes and events
Roll a fair die. Each possible result is an outcome, and the set of all of them is the sample space: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. An event is a set of outcomes. Tap the outcomes that make up the event “an even number”.