Area of study or interest - chemistry In your area of study/interest, what type

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Area of study or interest - chemistry
In your area of study/interest, what type of probability experiment could you perform?  In thinking about this, specify what possible outcomes would be in the experiment and whether a tree diagram would be handy in illustrating this. Also, how could computing probability be helpful in your experiment; what would it tell you?
Area of study or interest - chemistry
In your area of study/interest, what type of probability experiment could you perform?  In thinking about this, specify what possible outcomes would be in the experiment and whether a tree diagram would be handy in illustrating this. Also, how could computing probability be helpful in your experiment; what would it tell you?

In your area of study/interest, what type of probability experiment could you perform?  In thinking about this, specify what possible outcomes would be in the experiment and whether a tree diagram would be handy in illustrating this. Also, how could computing probability be helpful in your experiment; what would it tell you?

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As you've specified chemistry, a probability experiment that could be performed is the to find the probability of pH level of a sample.

The experiment would be : To measure the pH sample of all the chemicals in your school/college lab, and record those values. The pH value can range from 1-14 for any chemical so we will have 14 different probabilities which will all sum to 1.

The probability distribution might look like this where X = ph Value and P(X) = prob. of pH = X:

This is a possible where the prob. of getting a pH sample would be equal for all 14 values.

How this would be helpful is that we can examine what the overall pH level for the lab is.

If there is a higher probability for pH levels below 7, then the overall level is more acidic.

If there is a higher probability for pH levels above 7, then the overall level is more basic.

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X P(X) 1 1/14 2 1/14 3 1/14 4 1/14 5 1/14 6 1/14 7 1/14 8 1/14 9 1/14 10 1/14 11 1/14 12 1/14 13 1/14 14 1/14

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