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Engineering Statistics Exam 1 Questions And
Answers
probability -
correct answer ✅given the information in the pail, what is in your
hand?


statistics -
correct answer ✅given the information in your hand, what is in
the pail?


random experiment -
correct answer ✅an experiment that can result in different
outcomes, even though it is repeated in the same manner every
time


sample space (S) -
correct answer ✅the set of all possible outcomes of a random
experiment


discrete -
correct answer ✅the sample space consists of a finite or countable
infinite set of outcomes

, Engineering Statistics Exam 1 Questions And
Answers
continuous -
correct answer ✅the sample space contains an interval (finite or
infinite) of real numbers


event -
correct answer ✅a subset of the sample space of a random
experiment - used to collect outcomes into a smaller set of
meaningful descriptors of system behavior


union (U) -
correct answer ✅the event that consists of all outcomes that are
contained in either of the two events


intersection (∩) -
correct answer ✅the event that consists of all outcomes that are
contained in both of the events


mutually exclusive (disjoint) -
correct answer ✅two events A and B such that A ∩ B = 0, are said
to be...