Showing posts with label Possible outcomes for simple events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Possible outcomes for simple events. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 April 2012

Possible outcomes for simple events

Probability from Karnataka board syllabus of any event is the ratio of number of samples to the number of event. Possible outcomes for simple events can be predicated easily if we are tossing a coin then the possible outcomes can be head or a tail. If we are throwing a die then number of possible outcome can be 6. Because if we are rolling a die we can get the number as 1,2, 3,4,5,6. Possible outcomes of simple events can be predicted easily but it depend upon case to case, if we are choosing a card from the deck of 52 cards then can be very difficult to predict the outcome because there can be 52 outcomes. So every time it is not simple to predict the outcome. If we have to choose a particular card from the deck of 52 cards then it can be a easy task if we have to chose an ace, then there are four aces in the 52 cards so it can be a little easier task. If we have to choose a black card from the deck of 52 cards then it will be a very easier task because there are 26 black cards available there. So probability will be 26/52, that will be equal to ½. Now we will see a simple example in which we will determine the number of samples of an event. Also you can read about Probability Distribution Function to improve your skills.
Example: find the possible outcome if a die is rolled on the surface?
Solution: As we know that a die consists of six faces, and every face contains a number in between one to six. So when we roll the die the outcome can be one,two,three,four ,five and six. So the total number of outcome will be six.
In this way we can determine the possible outcomes for simple events.


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Describing events

Hello students, in this session we are going to discuss the describing events topic of mathematics, but before start it you should be familiar with the term events. Events means occurrence, that type of occurrence that observed by any party. Event may anything like ceremony, competition, meetings, festival, media event, party, sporting event and corporate event or Independent Events. And event may be in science, mathematics, technology and in many more fields.
Now the question arise that how to describe the events. To describing the events, we should know the first, the types of events. Describing events (more on events) means telling about the event such as: -
How it happened and how it will happen.
When it happened and when it will happen.
More precisely what happened, when happened, where happened, what were the tools, success-ed or not. And to describing event, we should know the some events object and attributes, like event name, event starting date, event completed date, host name, services, success and many more.
And technically, events may be following types: -
-Complementary events: - These types of event occurs when only one type of event occurs and the other one do not.
-Dependent events: - In this type of event, two events are dependent to each other, if one event's result affects the other event's result.
-Independent event: - Independent event are the events in which the existence of other event does not affect the other event's existence.
-Mutually exclusive events: - Those types of two or more events that do not occur at the same time.

I hope whatever information I gave above will give a brief introduction about the procedure of describing events.
Gujarat board Grade III students can learn something valuable from this information.

In upcoming posts we will discuss about Possible outcomes for simple events and Fractions. Visit our website for information on trigonometry worksheets