Simple and compound events are defined and explored with the help of an example of two coin tossing examples. These two types of events are fundamental to the understanding of probability theory
2. simple and compound events
• Simple Event: If an event E has only one element in a sample space, it is
called a simple event
• Compound Event: If an event E has more than one element in a sample
space, it is called a compound event.
3. simple events
• For an example, let us consider the experiment of tossing two coins. Its
sample space is S = {HH, HT, TH, TT}
• There are four simple events: E1 = {HH}, E2={HT}, E3={TH}, E4={TT}
4. compound events
• Let’s take another event F: “The number turns up is odd or event”
• Therefore F = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
• Thus the event F=S is called a sure event
5. types of events
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