Section 2.3. Events 27
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FIGURE 2.1: Rolling a total of 7 with a pair of dice.
constitute event M that the person will miss the target three times in a row, and the
elements of event N that the person will hit the target once and it twice.
Solution \f we let 0 and 1 represent a miss and a hit, respectively, the eight
possibilities (0, 0, 0), (1, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0), (0, 0, 1), (, 1, 0), (, 0, 1), (0,1, 1), and
(1,1, 1) may be displayed as in Figure 2.2. Thus, it can be seen that
M=((0,0,0}
and :
N ={,0,0), (0,1, 0), (0,0, 1)} .
EXAMPLE 2.6
Construct a sample space for the length of the useful life of a certain electronic
component and indicate the subset that represents the event F that the component
fails before the end of the sixth year.
Solution \it is the length of the component's useful life in years, the sample space
may be written S = (r\r 2 0}, and the subset F = (1\0