Question 1100599
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you have 3 transistors and test test to see which ones are defective.


they are either defective (d) or non-defective (n)


your sample space is the set of all possible outcomes of the test.


for this test, the set of all possible outcomes would be:


ddd
ddn
dnd
dnn
ndd
ndn
nnd
nnn


since each transistor can have 2 states (defective or non-defective), and there are 3 transistors, then the number of possible outcomes would be 2*2*2 = 8.


if there were only 2 transistors, then the number of possible outcomes would be 2*2 = 4 and the set of all possible outcomes would be:


dd
dn
nd
nn


if there were only one transistor, then the number of possible outcomes would be 2 and the set of all possible outcomes would be:


d
n