SOLUTION: For those of you who like standardized tests, I found this question on a recent SAT test: Two fair dice are tossed simultaneously. What is the probability that the product of the

Question 342964: For those of you who like standardized tests, I found this question on a recent SAT test: Two fair dice are tossed simultaneously. What is the probability that the product of the numbers that land showing is at least 25? Explain your solution.
Found 2 solutions by jim_thompson5910, Sphynx pinastri:
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can use a multiplication table to help you visualize the answer. Simply only focus on the values 1-6.

Looking at a multiplication table, there are 36 possible values that the two dice can multiply to, but there are only 4 possible ways to get 25 or more (5*5=25, 5*6=30, 6*5=30 and 6*6=36)

So the probability that the product is 25 or more is which is 0.1111 in decimal form (basically, an 11.11% chance)
Answer by Sphynx pinastri(7) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The only suiting combinations are 6 x 6, 5 x 5, 6 x 5, and 5 x 6, out of 36 possible combinations, so the probability is

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