document.write( "Question 1138544: find probability of the sum 8 appears in a single toss of a pair of fair dice. \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "The full space of events is the set of all pairs  (i,j), where i and j are integer numbers from 1 to 6, inclusively.\r\n" );
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document.write( "This space consists of  6*6 = 36 elements, and each element/event has the probability of  .\r\n" );
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document.write( "Of them, there are 5 outcomes where the sum is 8. They are\r\n" );
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document.write( "    (2,6), (3,5), (4,4), (5,3), (6,2).\r\n" );
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document.write( "Hence, the probability under the question is  .    ANSWER\r\n" );
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