IB Maths AA 4.5 Definitions
This page contains our IB Maths AA definitions for 4.5. By learning each one of these definitions, you will fully cover the content for IB Maths AA 'Probability'.
complement
The event that does not happen, written as , with probability .
conditional probability
The probability that one event happens given that another event has already happened, written as
provided that .
event
A set of outcomes from the sample space.
exclusive
Describes events that cannot happen at the same time, so and .
independent probability
outcome
One possible result of a trial.
probability
Measures how likely an event is to happen, taking a value between and , where means impossible and means certain.
sample
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