SOLUTION: please help with this also; Suppose a die is loaded so that a "1" face lands uppermost thrice as often as any other face while all the other faces occur equally often. What is the

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Suppose a die is loaded so that a "1" face lands uppermost thrice as often as any other face while all the other faces occur equally often. What is the probability of a "1" on a single toss?
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In this problem, the sample space consists of 6 elements.


Element "1" has the probability 3x, while each of the 5 other elements have the probability x.


    3x + 5x = 1  ====>  8x = 1  ---->  x =   ---->  3x = .


Thus the probability to have 1" on a single toss is  .    ANSWER

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