Question

A bag contains 8 red pens, 7 blue pens, and 14 black pens. Denato wants to pull a blue pen from the bag.

What is the sample space for this experiment?
[red, black]
[blue]
[red, blue, black]
[blue, red]

Answer 1

Explanation:

The sample space represents the set or collection of all possible outcomes. It's often written as S = [outcome1, outcome2, outcome3].

For this problem, there are 3 possible outcomes: red pen, blue pen or black pen. (The fact that Denato wants to pull a blue pen is irrelevant when defining the sample space bc we are just listing the possible outcomes.)

So the answer is [red, blue, black].