{"id":278,"date":"2012-01-06T17:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:33:51","slug":"introduction-of-probability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/introduction-of-probability\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Probability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probability was introduced in seventeenth century by two French mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat.\u00a0 Probability deals with the likelihood of occurrence of an event. If can be expressed as a number between 0 and 1. It can also be expressed as equivalent fraction or percentage.\u00a0 An event with Probability of one is certain to occur and if the probability of an event is zero it is an impossible event.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some important terms related Probability:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An <strong>experiment<\/strong> is a situation that leads to result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An <strong>outcome<\/strong> is the result of an experiment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An <strong>even<\/strong>t is one or more outcomes of an experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Let us understand these terms with an example of tossing a coin. In this, tossing a coin is an experiment which has two possible outcomes. The coin would either land on head or tail. Landing on head is one event and landing on tail is another event.<\/p>\n<p>The following formula is used to find the probability of an event:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/prob.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-279\" src=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/prob.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>Probability is used in statistics, economics, astronomy, business, weather studies, space research, genetics and various other fields of life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probability was introduced in seventeenth century by two French mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat.\u00a0 Probability deals with the likelihood of occurrence of an event. If can be expressed as a number between 0 and 1. It can also be expressed as equivalent fraction or percentage.\u00a0 An event with Probability of one is certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[964,3822],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probability","tag-introductiontoprobability","tag-probability"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}