Mathematics GCSE
Equally likely events
What Equally likely events means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Equally likely events
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Events that have the same probability, which lets you calculate expected outcomes by multiplying the probability of an outcome by the number of trials.
Topics that use Equally likely events
- Probability (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- analysis
- Combined experiments
- Equally likely outcomes
- expected outcomes
- frequency table
- frequency tree
- Independent and dependent events
- Independent combined events
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