document.write( "Question 122387: What does a worksheet mean if it says imagine having a dice or something and find different events of probability of it..??\r
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document.write( "Dice or cards or marbles in a bag are convenient ways to learn about\r\n" );
document.write( "probability because both the total possible outcomes and the successful\r\n" );
document.write( "outcomes are easily counted.\r\n" );
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document.write( "A die has six sides, so if you roll a die, each of the six numbers on it have\r\n" );
document.write( "an equally likely possibility of being on top when the die stops rolling.  So,\r\n" );
document.write( "if you want to know the probability of getting a 6, there is one possible way\r\n" );
document.write( "you would call 'success' and 6 total possibilities.  The probability is .\r\n" );
document.write( "With two dice, you have 36 total possibilities, 6 of which are\r\n" );
document.write( "where the dice total 7, so there is again  for a probability.\r\n" );
document.write( "But there is only 1 way out of 36 to get snake eyes, so the probability of\r\n" );
document.write( "rolling a 2 is \r\n" );
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document.write( "Cards work the same way, except that you just have more cards than sides of\r\n" );
document.write( "a die. So the numbers are larger and the calculations more complex.\r\n" );
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document.write( "No matter what you are dealing with, probability is always a fraction, always\r\n" );
document.write( "in the interval , and always computed by figuring the number\r\n" );
document.write( "of ways you can have a successful outcome and dividing that by the total\r\n" );
document.write( "number of possible outcomes.\r\n" );
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