Question

A textbook has 428 pages numbered in order starting with 1. You flip to a random page in the book in a way that it is equally likely to stop at any of the pages. What is the sample space for this experiment?

Answer 1

Answer:

The set of all pages in the book:

S={1, 2, 3, ..., 428}

Step-by-step explanation:

The sample space is the set containing all possible outcomes for the experiment. In this problem, the experiment is stopping at a random page of the textbook, and the sample space is the set of all pages in the book:

S={1, 2, 3, ..., 428}.