An experiment consists of tossing a coin and then throwing it second time if a head occurs. If a tail occurs on the first toss then a die is rolled once. Find the sample space

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A coin has two faces: Head $(H)$ and tail $(T)$
A die has six faces that are numbered from $1$ to $6$ with one number on each face.
Thus in the given experiment the sample space is given by ,
$S = H H, H T, T 1, T 2, T 3, T 4, T 5, T 6$

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An experiment consists of tossing a coin and then throwing it second time if a head occurs. If a tail occurs on the first toss then a die is rolled once. Find the sample space

A coin has two faces: Head (H) and tail (T)A die has six faces that are numbered from 1 to 6 with one number on each face.Thus in the given experiment the sample space is given by ,S=HH,HT,T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6

A coin has two faces: Head $(H)$ and tail $(T)$
A die has six faces that are numbered from $1$ to $6$ with one number on each face.
Thus in the given experiment the sample space is given by ,
$S = H H, H T, T 1, T 2, T 3, T 4, T 5, T 6$