In each of the following, describe the sample space for the indicated experiment.
A coin is tossed and then a die is rolled only in case a head is shown on the coin.
Let H denote the event of a head and T denote the event of a tail ,
1,2,3,4,5,6 denote the event the respective numbers comes when the die is thrown
The problem can be solved by breaking it into two cases
Case 1: Head is encountered
We define the possible outcomes by an ordered set (x, y)
x denotes the first event when the head is encountered
y denotes the second event when the die is thrown
Sample Space S1={(H,1),(H,2),(H,3),(H,4),(H,5),(H,6)}
Case 2: Tail is encountered
Sample Space S2={(T)}
The overall sample space S={(H,1),(H,2),(H,3),(H,4),(H,5),(H,6),(T)}