Students often wonder if the order in which a tree diagram is built is important. Let's discover the answer to this query: Group students in pairs. Each student is going to draw a tree diagram for the same event, but they are not going to build their diagrams in the same order. Example: Show the sample space for tossing one penny and rolling one die. (H = heads, T = tails)
Students should quickly see (and remember) that the order will not change the number of outcomes in a tree diagram.
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