Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Srini Devadas and Eric Lehman's "Counting I"

Each of the analyses discussed in "Counting I" can be illustrated by drawing a tree. Take another look at Section 2.1 and Section 2.2 of the readings on the sum rule and the product rule. These will be covered in a subunit below but are mentioned here to explain what a possibility tree is. If you illustrate these rules by drawing a tree, it will depict all the elements of a union of disjoint sets (sum rule) and of the product of sets (multiplication rule). If these sets represent outcomes for events, then the tree is called a possibility tree.

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