Question 17.3

17.3 Randomness. Random phenomena have which of the following characteristics?

  1. (a) They must be natural events. Man-made events cannot be random.

  2. (b) They exhibit a clear pattern in very many repetitions, although any one trial of the phenomenon is unpredictable.

  3. (c) They exhibit a clear pattern in a single trial but become increasingly unpredictable as the number of trials increases.

  4. (d) They are completely unpredictable; that is, they display no clear pattern no matter how often the phenomenon is repeated.