Event
What Event means in Mathematics A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A subset of the sample space, representing one or more outcomes of interest.
A set of one or more outcomes from a sample space.
Topics that use Event
- M: Probability (AQA A-Level)
- Probability (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Conditional probability
- Independent events
- mutually exclusive events
- sample space
- Tree diagrams
- Two-way tables
- addition rule
- Binomial distribution
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