{"id":1141,"date":"2021-08-19T17:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1141"},"modified":"2022-01-24T23:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:49:22","slug":"introduction-to-terminology","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/chapter\/introduction-to-terminology\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Terminology","rendered":"Introduction to Terminology"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: Calculate conditional probabilities and probabilities of complementary evens<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1142 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5668\/2021\/08\/19174052\/pexels-ralph-w-lambrecht-1446076-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"a picture of a tornado and lightening striking on a field\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>What is the chance of a strong storm or a tornado on a given day?\u00a0 If you have wondered about the answer to this question, you are thinking about the concepts of probability.\u00a0 Probability describes how likely a particular outcome is. Probabilities can range from 0 (the event will never happen) to 1 (the event is guaranteed to happen). Before we look at rules involving probability, we need to be familiar with basic terminology about probability.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: Calculate conditional probabilities and probabilities of complementary evens<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1142 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5668\/2021\/08\/19174052\/pexels-ralph-w-lambrecht-1446076-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"a picture of a tornado and lightening striking on a field\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>What is the chance of a strong storm or a tornado on a given day?\u00a0 If you have wondered about the answer to this question, you are thinking about the concepts of probability.\u00a0 Probability describes how likely a particular outcome is. 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Before we look at rules involving probability, we need to be familiar with basic terminology about probability.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1141\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Lightning and Tornado Hitting Village. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>:  Ralph W. lambrecht. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Pexels. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/lightning-and-tornado-hitting-village-1446076\/\">https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/lightning-and-tornado-hitting-village-1446076\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":169134,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Lightning and Tornado Hitting Village\",\"author\":\" Ralph W. lambrecht\",\"organization\":\"Pexels\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/lightning-and-tornado-hitting-village-1446076\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1141","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":43,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1141\/revisions\/3442"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/43"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1141\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}