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What is the difference between an outcome and an event?

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The result of a random experiment will be called an outcome, and combination of outcomes will be termed as event, i.e. An Event is a one or more outcome of an experiment.

For example: Whenever we do an experiment like rolling a die, we get an outcome, i.e. if we roll a die we get an outcome of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.

An event is a set of outcomes. The event of rolling an even number with a die is the set.

{2, 4, 6}.

Also, We call the set of all possible outcomes of an experiment the sample space, and the sample space for the experiment of rolling a die is

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