An event which is giving a result in ones favour
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Favourable outcomes in a series of trials are those where the outcome is what you are looking for. The word "favourable" has positive connotations in normal usage but that should not be applied here. For example, if I am studying the spread of a fatal infectious diseases, the event that would be looking for is that someone gets infected. In all likelihood, no one will consider that to be favourable in the normal sense! The probability of an event is the ratio of the favourable outcomes to the total number of trials.
If you can enumerate the outcome space into equally likely events, then it is the number of outcomes that are favourable (in which the event occurs) divided by the total number of outcomes.
The probability of an event is the number of favourable outcomes divided by the total number of possible outcomes. What is the total number of possible outcomes of tossing a number cube? 6 How many outcomes are favourable to the event of getting a five? 1 So the prob is 1/6 or 0.16667
A favorable outcome refers to a specific result that is considered desirable or advantageous in a given situation. On the other hand, a possible outcome is any potential result that could occur, regardless of desirability. In probability theory, the likelihood of a favorable outcome is often calculated by dividing the number of favorable outcomes by the total number of possible outcomes.
A probability of 0 means the event is impossible.