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If two fair six-sided dice are thrown, what is the probability that th
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If two fair six-sided dice are thrown, what is the probability that the sum of the numbers showing on the dice is 6 ?
(A) 1/36
(B) 1/12
(C) 5/36
(D) 1/6
(E) 1
(A) 1/36
(B) 1/12
(C) 5/36
(D) 1/6
(E) 1
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27 Sep 2021, 10:07
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Carcass wrote:
If two fair six-sided dice are thrown, what is the probability that the sum of the numbers showing on the dice is 6 ?
(A) 1/36
(B) 1/12
(C) 5/36
(D) 1/6
(E) 1
(A) 1/36
(B) 1/12
(C) 5/36
(D) 1/6
(E) 1
For two 6-sided dice, the number of ways the sum to be 6 are {(1,5),(2,4),(3,3),(4,2),(5,1)}
So 5/36.
Answer is C) 5/36
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12 Oct 2021, 01:51
12 Oct 2021, 01:51
why we do not count (3, 3) twice? so that the p = 6/36
