SOLUTION: What is the probability of having the sum of 12 when two dice are tossed?

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Question 487397:
What is the probability of having the sum of 12 when two dice are tossed?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is the probability of having the sum of 12 when two dice are tossed?
Here are the sample space, the 36 ways two dice can fall:

⚀⚀   ⚀⚁   ⚀⚂   ⚀⚃   ⚀⚄  ⚀⚅

⚁⚀   ⚁⚁   ⚁⚂   ⚁⚃   ⚁⚄  ⚁⚅

⚂⚀   ⚂⚁   ⚂⚂   ⚂⚃   ⚂⚄  ⚂⚅

⚃⚀   ⚃⚁   ⚃⚂   ⚃⚃   ⚃⚄  ⚃⚅

⚄⚀   ⚄⚁   ⚄⚂   ⚄⚃   ⚄⚄  ⚄⚅

⚅⚀   ⚅⚁   ⚅⚂   ⚅⚃   ⚅⚄  ⚅⚅

See the one I colored red at the bottom right?  It's the only 
one of the 36 that has sum 12.

Therefore the probability of getting that one I've colored
red is 1 way out of 36, or 

Edwin
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