You are going to ask people if they like ice cream, recording the answer Yes or No. You are going to ask until someone says Yes or you have asked four people. Write out the sample space for this random phenomenon.

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1. You are going to ask people if they like ice cream, recording the answer Yes or No. You are going to ask until someone says Yes or you have asked four people. Write out the sample space for this random phenomenon.

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Given that I am going to ask until someone says Yes or I have asked four people. 

Let us denote Y=Yes and N=No

So the sample space will be: {Y , NY, NNY , NNNY, NNNN} 

 

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