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

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asked Jul 5, 2017 in Mathematics by sforrest072 (157,439 points) 60 409 933

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answered Jul 5, 2017 by vikash (21,277 points) 4 19 70
 
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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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