Exercise · ZW-SAMPLE-SPACE-006 · ★★☆ Intermediate
A coin is tossed until heads appears and the number of tosses is recorded. What is the sample space like?
Choose one option.
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- C. Countably infinite
Explanation
The number of tosses can be \(1,2,3,\dots\) with no bound: an infinite set that can be listed.
Review the concept: Sample space
A sample space \(\Omega\) is the set of all possible outcomes \(\omega\) of a random experiment.
\[\Omega=\{\omega_1,\omega_2,\omega_3,\dots\}\]
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