SOLUTION: You and a friend are rolling two 6-sided number cubes and placing bets on he sum of the outcome. Is it better to place a bet on a sum of 3, 4, 7, or 11?

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Question 1007236: You and a friend are rolling two 6-sided number cubes and placing bets on he sum of the outcome. Is it better to place a bet on a sum of 3, 4, 7, or 11?
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It is 7.
Probability of a 7 is 1/6;6/1;2/5;5/2;3/4;4/3
for 3, 2/1;1/2
for 11:6/5;5/6
4:3/1;1/3/2/2;2/2