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<span class="type">Example</span><span class="space heading-divison-mark heading-divison-mark__space"> </span><span class="codenumber">1.1.2</span><span class="period heading-divison-mark heading-divison-mark__period">.</span>
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<div class="para">An experiment consists of rolling a standard 6-sided die. The sample space is <span class="process-math">\(\Omega = \{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6\}\text{.}\)</span> One possible event is <span class="process-math">\(A = \{2, 4, 6\}\text{,}\)</span> i.e., the event that the result of the roll is even.<div class="autopermalink" aria-hidden="true" data-description="Paragraph"><a tabindex="-1" href="#example-sample-space-1-1" title="Copy heading and permalink for Paragraph" aria-label="Copy heading and permalink for Paragraph">🔗</a></div>
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<div class="para">What would the sample space look like if we roll the die two times and recorded the results?<div class="autopermalink" aria-hidden="true" data-description="Paragraph"><a tabindex="-1" href="#example-sample-space-1-2" title="Copy heading and permalink for Paragraph" aria-label="Copy heading and permalink for Paragraph">🔗</a></div>
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\Omega = \{\amp (1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4), (1, 5), (1, 6), \\
\amp (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6), \\
\amp (3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3), (3, 4), (3, 5), (3, 6), \\
\amp (4, 1), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), \\
\amp (5, 1), (5, 2), (5, 3), (5, 4), (5, 5), (5, 6), \\
\amp (6, 1), (6, 2), (6, 3), (6, 4), (6, 5), (6, 6)\}
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<div class="para">Note that, for example, <span class="process-math">\((1, 2)\)</span> is a different outcome from <span class="process-math">\((2, 1)\text{.}\)</span>
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