Question 1173911: A pair of 6 sided dice are tossed. What is the probability that at least one of the dice has a value greater than or equal to 2?
I have been working on this problem for 2 hours and got 35/36 each time after drawing out a chart.
Answer by ikleyn(52903)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
Your answer is correct.
There is ONLY ONE outcome (1,1) of 36 possible outcomes,
which is out of this set.
The rest 35 outcomes are in it : they are favorable.
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In this site, there is a lesson
- Rolling a pair of fair dice
specially devoted to rolling dice. You will find there many other similar solved problems.
Read this lesson, and you will tackle such problems in minutes (not in hours), as if they are pistachios (!)
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