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document.write( "Suppose, say, one die is red and the other green.\r\n" );
document.write( "Here are all the possible rolls with a red die and a green die:\r\n" );
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document.write( "(1,1) (1,2) (1,3) (1,4) (1,5) (1,6)\r\n" );
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document.write( "(2,1) (2,2) (2,3) (2,4) (2,5) (2,6) \r\n" );
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document.write( "(3,1) (3,2) (3,3) (3,4) (3,5) (3,6)\r\n" );
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document.write( "(4,1) (4,2) (4,3) (4,4) (4,5) (4,6)\r\n" );
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document.write( "(5,1) (5,2) (5,3) (5,4) (5,5) (5,6)\r\n" );
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document.write( "(6,1) (6,2) (6,3) (6,4) (6,5) (6,6)\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are 36 possible rolls. The only rolls with have sum 11\r\n" );
document.write( "are (5,6) and (6,5) So there are only 2 possible rolls out of\r\n" );
document.write( "the 36 which have that property.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore the probability is  \r\n" );
document.write( "which reduces to  = 0.056\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin

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