Question

A coin is flipped and a spinner is spun.What is the sample space of the experiment?

Answer 1

The sample space is the set of all different outcomes that can show up from the experiment.

Flipping a coin has two possible outcomes: heads or tails.

Spinning the spinner has three possible outcomes: A, B or C.

Draw a tree diagram to represent the sample space:

If we represent results using ordered pairs, the sample space is:

`\mleft\lbrace(H,A\mright),(H,B),(H,C),(T,A),(T,B),(T,C)\}`

Where H stands for heads and T stands for tails.