document.write( "Question 798335: What is the probability of rolling 2 number cubes and having the first land on 5’ and the second land on 4’?\r
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document.write( "No.  It's just 1 way out of 36 or   Here's why:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Only one sixth of the time will the first cube land on 5'.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now only one sixth of those times that the first cube lands on 5',\r\n" );
document.write( "will the second cube land on 4'.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the answer verbally is \"one sixth of one sixth of the time\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "So numerically the answer is  or .\r\n" );
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document.write( "Look at it this way.  In the chart below each (↏,↏) represents \r\n" );
document.write( "(1st roll, 2nd roll):\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( "Out of those 36 ways, only the red one has 5' first and 4' second.  \r\n" );
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