At Beth & Mary's Ice Cream Emporium Customers May Choose

question 27

Essay

At Beth & Mary's Ice Cream Emporium customers may choose to sprinkle toppings on their ice cream. The toppings are classified as either candy (C) or fruit (F) toppings. Consider the chance experiment where the choice of toppings--(C) or (F)--is recorded for each of the next two customers who order ice cream.
a)List all the events in the sample space.
b)Using your sample space in part (a), list the outcomes for each of the following events
A = the event that both customers pick candy
B = the event that both customers pick the same type of topping
C = the event that at least one customer picks a candy topping
A:
B:
C:

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Definitions:

Dollars

A unit of currency used in the United States and other countries, symbolized by the $ sign and used as a standard monetary unit.

Current Account

A financial statement within the balance of payments summarizing the flow of goods, services, income, and transfer payments into and out of a country.