Tree Diagram

A tree diagram is a branching structure that maps the outcomes of chances/probabilities. The more branches, the more outcomes.

Tree Diagram

Flipping a coin. Your only outcomes are either head or tail. Your tree diagram would look like this:

Tree Diagram

Flipping a coin twice. If you flipped your coin a second time, you still only have the outcomes heads and tails but this time they branched out from your previous outcome. So your tree diagram would look like this:

Tree Diagram

• Can be used to show a sample space

• Each "branch" of the diagram represents one possible outcome