Chapter 1

MGB Introduction to the Theory of Statistics

1. Let B = black ball, G = gold ball and W = white ball.
(b) Since the sample space if finite of 4 possible outcomes, the number of events = 24 = 16
events. The event space is
𝜙, {(B, W)}, {(B, G)}, {(G, W)}, {(G, G)},
{(B, W), (B, G)}, {(B, W), (G, W)}, {(B, W), (G, G)},
𝒜= {(B, G), (G, W)}, {(B, G), (G, G)}, {(G, W), (G, G)},
{(B, W), (B, G), (G, W)}, {(B, W), (B, G), (G, G)}, {(B, W), (G, W), (G, G)},
{ {(B, G), (G, W), (G, G)}, Ω }

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