SOLUTION: Sam is playing a game with 2 dice (black and red) and on his next move he needs to throw a sum at least 8 in order to win. What is the probability that Sam will win? (Enter your an
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Question 1186402: Sam is playing a game with 2 dice (black and red) and on his next move he needs to throw a sum at least 8 in order to win. What is the probability that Sam will win? (Enter your answer in exact form or round to 4 decimal places.)
Answer by ikleyn(53937) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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On rolling dice problems see the lesson
- Rolling a pair of fair dice
in this site. You will find there many similar solved problems.
Read it and learn the subject from there. After that, you will be able easy solve such problems
ON YOUR OWN, which is your MAJOR GOAL visiting this forum (I believe).
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
- ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lesson is the part of this online textbook under the topic "Solved problems on Probability".
Save the link to this textbook together with its description
Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/complex/ALGEBRA-II-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson
into your archive and use when it is needed.
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