SOLUTION: To the nearest hundredth, what is the probability of rolling a sum of 6 if two dice are rolled?
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Question 1176180: To the nearest hundredth, what is the probability of rolling a sum of 6 if two dice are rolled?
Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, ewatrrr:
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
When two dices are rolled , there are outcomes of the type (,), where is outcome of first dice and is outcome of second dice.
As both and can take values from to , there are total outcomes.
Of these the outcomes (,), (,), (,), (,) and (,) denote we have a got a sum of.
Hence there are outcomes (of the total of outcomes) which give us the desired output.
Hence probability of getting a sum of is or %
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
two dice rolled:
P(sum of 6) = 5/36 = .14 (nearest hundredth)
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