SOLUTION: what are the odds of rolling a 5 on a standard number cube?

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Question 330692: what are the odds of rolling a 5 on a standard number cube?
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The probability of anything is the number of ways that it can happen that you would consider a success divided by the number of ways it can happen total -- successes and failures.

There is one way to get a 5 out of 6 different ways the cube can land.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it