Question

Two fair dice are rolled What is the SAMPLE SPACE of the possible outcomes? SHOW YOUR WORK!

Answer 1

ANSWER

See sample space below

EXPLANATION

The sample space refers to the set of all the possible outcomes.

When two fair dice are rolled, the possible by outcomes are:

{(1,1),(1,2),(1,3),(1,4),(1,5),(1,6),(2,1),(2,2),(2,3),(2,4),(2,5),(2,6),(3,1),(3,2),(3,3),(3,4),(3,5),(3,6),(4,1),(4,2),(4,3),(4,4),(4,5),(4,6),(5,1),(5,2),(5,3),(5,4),(5,5),(5,6),(6,1),(6,2),(6,3),(6,4),(6,5),(6,6)}

The total number of outcomes is 36.