Common Core · High school
HSS-CP.A.1
High school — Describe events as subsets of a sample space, using characteristics of the outcomes or unions, intersections and complements of other events.
The skill that covers it
What a student should be able to do
- List the sample space of a one- or two-stage experiment and count its outcomes.
- Write the probability of an event as a fraction in lowest terms.
- Express the same probability as a fraction, a decimal and a percent.
- Describe an event as impossible, unlikely, even, likely or certain, and compare two events.