Question

Define an event.

 

Answer 1

What are the meanings of event?

The word event means something that result.

Definition:

An event is a collection of outcomes of a trial of a random experiment.

To illustrate the definition, let us take examples:

1. When two coins are tossed simultaneously, the possible outcomes are HH, HT, TH and TT. Any one outcome like HH is called an event (elementary event). The collections like {HH, HT}, {HH, HT, TT} etc are all events (compound event).

2. In the experiment of rolling a dice, the possible outcomes are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Any one outcome like 4 is called an event (elementary event). The collections like {1, 2}, {1, 2, 3}, {2, 5, 6}, {2, 3, 4, 5} etc are all events (compound events).

Note that H stands for getting a head and T stands for getting a tail in the experiment of tossing a coin.