Mathematics A-Level
point probabilities
What point probabilities means in Mathematics A-Level, as defined for WJEC.
Definition of point probabilities
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Reference: WJEC
The probability of any single point, which is zero for continuous variables: P(X = c) = 0.
Topics that use point probabilities
- Probability (AS Unit 2: Applied Mathematics A) (WJEC A-Level)
Related terms
- addition rule
- Independent events
- multiplication rule
- mutually exclusive events
- Venn diagrams
- continuous probability density
- discrete probability mass
- set intersections
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