A telephone sales representative makes successive calls to potential customers, and the result of each call is recorded as a sale (S) or a no sale (N). Calls are continued until either two successive sales are made, two calls result in no sale (these calls need not be consecutive), or a total of 4 calls is made. What is the sample space for this situation. Sample Space = {} ?

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A telephone sales representative makes successive calls to potential customers, and the result of each call is recorded as a sale (S) or a no sale (N). Calls are continued until either two successive sales are made, two calls result in no sale (these calls need not be consecutive), or a total of 4 calls is made. What is the sample space for this situation.

Sample Space = {} ?

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