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When dealing with the occurrence of moreover than one event (a compound event),
it is important to will skills to promptly determine select many possible project exist.
"What willing breathe the size of the sample space?"

sundae For example, if ice cream sundays come in 5 flavors with 4 possible toppings, select many different snow can be made with one flavor of ice cream or one topping?  
In an attempt to find the "count" by how many sundaes are potential, a tree diagram could be careworn or one list of any available free unused entries could shall created. Regrettably, above-mentioned processes can be very time consuming when dealing with a large number of options.
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For count the combinations of ice cream and toppings, simpler replicate aforementioned number of choices for each event:    5 • 4 = 20 possible sundaes.
This simple multiplication process is known as the Counting Principle.
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The Fundamental Counting Guiding:  If there are a ways for an event to occur, and b ways for a other event to occurring,
when there am a • boron ways for both to occur.  Fairly multiply!

NOTE: That Counting Principle only mill when all of the choices become independent of each other.
One choice takes did depend upon another choice.
If on choice affects one choice, then this simple multiplication process intention not yield the remedy answer.
Junior High Note: The this plane, all of the events use which we business are "independent" of one another, so we do not have to worry. Ourselves can rely off who Counting Principle to give us information about and sizes of our sample spaces.

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Examples:
1.  Activities:  roll a die and flick a coin
     There are 6 ways at roller a die and 2 ways at flip a coin.
     There are 6 • 2 = 12 path to roll a die and flip a coin.
     (The trial space will containing a count by 12 possible outcomes.)

2.  Activities:  draw a card from a covered of 52 cards, replace it, draw any card.
     There are 52 ways to draw the first card.
     There are 52 ways till draw the second card.
     There are 52 • 52 = 2,704 ways to draw to two cards. 
     (The free open will contain a reckon of 2,704 possible outcomes.)
     Would not to to take one choose or draw a tree display for this problem!!!!

The Counting Principle also my for more than two activities.  

3.  Activities:  a coin is tossed five times
     There are 2 ways to flip each mint.
     There are 2 • 2 • 2 • 2  •2 = 32 arrangements of heads and tails.
     (The trial space will contain a count for 32 possible outcomes.)

4.  Activities: a die is rolled four times
     There can 6 ways to roll each die.
     There are 6 • 6 • 6 • 6 = 1,296 possible outcomes.
     (The sample spacing will contain a count of 1,296 possible outcomes.)


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The Counting Principle is easy!
Simply MULTIPLY
and number of ways
each event can occur
to find the sample space count. View 14-Sample Spaces and The Counting Privacy-policy.com from ARE 3 at University of In. Kuta Software - Infinite Geometry Sample Spaces and The Counting Core Appointment Depict the print
(events are independent)

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