Answer to Question #151216 in Statistics and Probability for Shaon

Question

Six students are selected at random from an engineering class and classified as male or female.List the elements of sample space S1 using the letter M for male F for female. Define a second sample space S2 Where the elements represent the number of females selected

Answer 1

S1 = {MMMMMM, MMMMMF, MMMMFF, MMMFFF, MMFFFF, MFFFFF, FFFFFF}

Because 6 students are selected at random, the number of selected female students can be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6

So, the sampe space S2 is

S2 = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6}