document.write( "Question 486278: A coin is tossed and a number cube is rolled.What is the probability that the coin shows heads and the number cube shows a number less than 2? \n" ); document.write( "

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A coin is tossed and a number cube is rolled.What is the probability that the coin shows heads and the number cube shows a number less than 2?
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document.write( "The sample space is this set of twelve outcomes:\r\n" );
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document.write( "H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6,T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6\r\n" );
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document.write( "Only the red one is such that it shows heads and the number cube shows a number\r\n" );
document.write( "less than 2. The only number on a number cube less than 2 is 1.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So that's 1 way out of 12, or \r\n" );
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document.write( "You can also do it this way.  The number in the sample space is gotten\r\n" );
document.write( "not by listing them as I did above, but just by figuring out how many there\r\n" );
document.write( "are.  The coin can fall one of 2 ways, and for each of the 2 ways the \r\n" );
document.write( "coin can fall, there are 6 ways the dice can fall.  That's 2×6 or 12 ways.\r\n" );
document.write( "And so the probability is 1 out of 12 or .\r\n" );
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