SOLUTION: if you roll two cubes 200 times about how many times would you expect to get the sum of 6

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Question 365744: if you roll two cubes 200 times about how many times would you expect to get the sum of 6
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
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Here are all the ways two dice can fall

(1,1)  (1,2)   (1,3)  (1,4)   (1,5)  (1,6)
 
(2,1)  (2,2)   (2,3)  (2,4)   (2,5)  (2,6)
 
(3,1)  (3,2)   (3,3)  (3,4)   (3,5)  (3,6)
 
(4,1)  (4,2)   (4,3)  (4,4)   (4,5)  (4,6)
 
(5,1)  (5,2)   (5,3)  (5,4)   (5,5)  (5,6)
 
(6,1)  (6,2)   (6,3)  (6,4)   (6,5)  (6,6)


I will color the ones red which have sum 6.

(1,1)  (1,2)   (1,3)  (1,4)   (1,5)  (1,6)
 
(2,1)  (2,2)   (2,3)  (2,4)   (2,5)  (2,6)
 
(3,1)  (3,2)   (3,3)  (3,4)   (3,5)  (3,6)
 
(4,1)  (4,2)   (4,3)  (4,4)   (4,5)  (4,6)
 
(5,1)  (5,2)   (5,3)  (5,4)   (5,5)  (5,6)
 
(6,1)  (6,2)   (6,3)  (6,4)   (6,5)  (6,6)

So the probability of having sum 6 is 5 ways out of 36 or 5%2F36

So you will roll a sum of six 5%2F36ths of the time, so

5%2F36 of 200 times is 27%267%2F9 or about 28 times.

Edwin