Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

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Chapter 7 - Section 7.2 - Probability Theory - Exercises - Page 466: 4

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i) let E be the event that the outcome s occurs. Then according to Laplace's definition, $P(s)=\frac{|E|}{|S|}$ and since S is a finite sample space as well as $E \subseteq S \Rightarrow 0\leq|E| \leq |S|$, we obtain $0 \leq P(s)= \frac{|E|}{|S|} \leq 1$ ii) Since according to Laplace's definition there are n equally likely outcome each assigned with a probability $\frac{1}{n}$, it is straightforward that $\sum_{s \in S}p(s)=\sum_{s\in S}\frac{|E|}{|S|}=\sum_{s\in S,|S|=n}\frac{1}{n}=n.\frac{1}{n}=1$
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