Question

You flip a coin and draw a marble at random from a bag containing two purple marbles and one white marble The number of possible outcomes in the sample space is

Answer 1

6 possible outcomes

Explanation:

Given:

Flip a coin

Draw a marble at random from a bag containing two purple marbles and one white marble

To Find:

The possible outcomes = ?

Solution:

By Flipping a coin, we have two outcomes, either head or tail

For each of these outcomes we will either tale any one of the balls from the bag

So possible outcomes will be

Head - purple ball

head -purple ball

Head -white ball

Tail - purple ball

Tail -purple ball

Tail -white ball

So there are 6 possible outcomes.