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## [Sample space: two observation scales for two coin tosses, and outcomes that are not equally likely](/en/derivations/derivation-mko-sample-space-01/?from=%2Fen%2Fderivations%2F%3Fq%3Dmko-sample-space)

Random experiment: toss a coin twice. (1) Recording the results in order, write the sample space S, and prove that it contains every possible elementary outcome and has exactly 4 elements; (2) recording only the number of heads, write the sample space S′={0,1,2}; (3) under a separately given probability model P (each ordered outcome in S has probability 1/4), compute the probabilities 1/4, 1/2, 1/4 of the outcomes in S′, showing that outcomes in one sample space need not be equally likely; (4) use another valid, non-uniform model Q on S to show that the sample space by itself does not fix probabilities; (5) distinguish the outcome (H,T) from the event {(H,T),(T,H)}.

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