A die is thrown repeatedly until a six comes up. What is the sample space for this experiment

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asked Feb 7, 2018 in Mathematics by Rohit Singh (61,782 points) 35 133 357
A die is thrown repeatedly until a six comes up. What is the sample space for this experiment?

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answered Feb 7, 2018 by sameer (82,980 points) 5 11 37

In this experiment, six may come up on the first throw, the second throw, the third throw and so on till six is obtained.
Hence, the sample space of this experiment is given by
S = {6, (1, 6), (2, 6), (3, 6), (4, 6), (5, 6), (1, 1, 6), (1, 2, 6), … , (1, 5, 6), (2, 1, 6), (2, 2, 6), … , (2, 5, 6), … ,(5, 1, 6), (5, 2, 6), …}

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