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7.SP.C.8 Tutor Intake -- Compound Events: Sample Spaces and Simulation

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Grade 7·8 problems·~12 min·Common Core Math - Grade 7·standard·7-sp-c-8

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A student is building the sample space for flipping a coin and
rolling a standard six-sided die together. The student lists only
8 outcomes: (H,1), (H,2), (H,3), (H,4), (T,1), (T,2), (T,3),
(T,4). What is wrong with this sample space?

There are too many outcomes listed; only 6 outcomes are possible

Nothing is wrong — 8 outcomes is a reasonable sample space for this experiment

It's incomplete — the full sample space should have 2 x 6 = 12 outcomes, including die values 5 and 6 paired with each coin result

The outcomes should be listed as fractions, not pairs