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Advanced Placement Statistics (AP Statistics, AP Stat or AP Stats) is a college-level high school statistics course offered in the United States through the College Board's Advanced Placement program.

This course is equivalent to a one semester, non-calculus-based introductory college statistics course and is normally offered to juniors and seniors in high school.

Calculus (from Latin calculus, literally "small pebble used for counting") is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithmetic operations.

It has two major branches, differential calculus (concerning rates of change and slopes of curves), and integral calculus (concerning accumulation of quantities and the areas under and between curves); these two branches are related to each other by the fundamental theorem of calculus.

Both branches make use of the fundamental notions of convergence of infinite sequences and infinite series to a well-defined limit.

Generally, modern calculus is considered to have been developed in the 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.

Today, calculus has widespread uses in science, engineering and economics.

Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur.

Probability is quantified as a number between 0 and 1 (where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty).

The higher the probability of an event, the more certain that the event will occur.

A simple example is the tossing of a fair (unbiased) coin.

Since the coin is unbiased, the two outcomes ("head" and "tail") are both equally probable; the probability of "head" equals the probability of "tail".

Since no other outcomes are possible, the probability is 1/2 (or 50%), of either "head" or "tail".

In other words, the probability of "head" is 1 out of 2 outcomes and the probability of "tail" is also 1 out of 2 outcomes, expressed as 0.5 when converted to decimal, with the above-mentioned quantification system.

This type of probability is also called a priori probability.