SOLUTION: A pair of 6 sided dice are tossed. What is the probability that at least one of the dice has a value greater than or equal to 2?
I have been working on this problem for 2 hours
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Question 1173911: A pair of 6 sided dice are tossed. What is the probability that at least one of the dice has a value greater than or equal to 2?
I have been working on this problem for 2 hours and got 35/36 each time after drawing out a chart.
Answer by ikleyn(52905) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Your answer is correct.
There is ONLY ONE outcome (1,1) of 36 possible outcomes,
which is out of this set.
The rest 35 outcomes are in it : they are favorable.
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