Probability Vocabulary

What is an event that will happen or has a probability of 1?

• theoretical

• probability

• mutually exclusive

• certain

outcome with the same chance of occurring

• mutually exclusive

• impossible

• equally

• independent

a situation involving doing the activity that leads to results or outcomes.

• complement

• outcome

• dependent

• experimental

an event with a probability of zero

• impossible

• mutually exclusive

• outcome

• outcome

The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur. The chance that an event will happen. A ratio of chance/all chances.

• odds

• probability

• outcomes

• tree diagram

Mathematical calculation that an event will happen in theory.

• odds

• theoretical probability

• outcomes

• dependent event

A possible result of an experiment

• outcomes
• compound event
• simple event
• probability

A list of favourable outcomes

• event

• experimental probability
• theoretical probability
• fundamental counting principle

A set of all possible outcomes of one or more events. Ex. {1,2,3,4,5,6}

• Independent Events

• Outcome

• Probability

• Sample Space

Probabilities are always between...

• 0 & 1 or 0% & 100%

• 0 & 100 or 0% & 1%

• 1 & 100

• 2 & 1