The United States has 10 federal holidays.Each holiday and the date of the holiday in 2016 are listed in the table below. Suppose you work for a private company that does not observe all the federal holidays.What is the sample space for the number of federal holidays that your company might observe?

A) S = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}
B) S = {Jan,Feb,May,Jul,Sept,Oct,Nov,Dec}
C) S = {0}
D) S = {10}

The sample space represents all possible outcomes of an experiment. In this case, the experiment is whether or not the private company observes each of the 10 federal holidays. Therefore, the sample space includes all possible numbers of federal holidays that the company might observe, which includes observing none, some, or all of the holidays. The set of integers from 0 to 10 includes all of the possible values, so choice A is the best answer.