Answer to Question #309836 in Statistics and Probability for Kiva

Question

1. Three coins are tossed and the random variable Y is the number of tail that appear.

Sample Space = ___

Y= _____

2 Let Z represent the number of girls (daughters) in a family of three children. Use B to represent boys and G 

to represent girls.

Sample Space = ______

Z=

Answer 1

1) Sample space: {HHH, HHT, HTH, THH, HTT, THT, TTH, TTT}.

Y=0, 1, 2, 3.

2) Sample space: {BBB, BBG, BGB, GBB, BGG, GBG, GGB, GGG}.

Z=0, 1, 2, 3.