Your friend and you are doing a homework problem for Math 104. Your friend decides to draw a tree diagram. It turns out that this tree diagram has 8 leaves. What can you tell about the problem, knowing only this fact?  -There are 8 possible outcomes. -The tree is for an experiment with one die and one coin. -There are 8 branches in this tree. -Not enough information to be sure of any of the other statements. -The outcomes are not independent. -Each outcome has probability 1/8.

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Your friend and you are doing a homework problem for Math 104. Your friend decides to draw a tree diagram. It turns out that this tree diagram has 8 leaves. What can you tell about the problem, knowing only this fact? 


-There are 8 possible outcomes.
-The tree is for an experiment with one die and one coin.
-There are 8 branches in this tree.
-Not enough information to be sure of any of the other statements.
-The outcomes are not independent.
-Each outcome has probability 1/8.
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