SOLUTION: A person tosses a biased die three times. The probability that the sum of the number of dots in all three tosses is 2 is 0.0625.What is the error in the probabilities?

Question 1198236: A person tosses a biased die three times. The probability that the sum of the number of dots in all three tosses is 2 is 0.0625.What is the error in the probabilities?

Answer by ikleyn(52858) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The common sense tells that the sum of 2 is impossible in tossing a die three times:
the lowest possible sum is 3.

So, the true probability of getting the sum 2 in this experiment is 0 (zero).

Thus the error in measuring the probability in this problem is at least 0.0625.

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