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The Equally Likely Case

In general, the probability tex2html_wrap_inline3245 of any event A is found by summing the individual probabilities P(X=x) for all possible outcomes x in A. For events with equally likely outcomes, probabilities are very simple to compute: if a random phenomenon has k possible outcomes, all equally likely, then each individual outcome has probability 1/k. That is,

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Jan Lethen
Wed Nov 13 16:20:46 CST 1996