SOLUTION: Two dice are thrown together.Find the probability that the two digit number formed with the two numbers turning up is divisible by 3.

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Question 483229: Two dice are thrown together.Find the probability that the two digit number formed with the two numbers turning up is divisible by 3.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
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I take this to be interpreted as:

What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the dice
is divisible by 3, given that it is a two digit number?

If that is the correct interpretation, then since we are given
that the sum is a two-digit number, the sum can only be 10, 11, 
or 12, the ones colored red below: 

⚀⚀   ⚀⚁   ⚀⚂   ⚀⚃   ⚀⚄  ⚀⚅

⚁⚀   ⚁⚁   ⚁⚂   ⚁⚃   ⚁⚄  ⚁⚅

⚂⚀   ⚂⚁   ⚂⚂   ⚂⚃   ⚂⚄  ⚂⚅

⚃⚀   ⚃⚁   ⚃⚂   ⚃⚃   ⚃⚄  ⚃⚅

⚄⚀   ⚄⚁   ⚄⚂   ⚄⚃   ⚄⚄  ⚄⚅

⚅⚀   ⚅⚁   ⚅⚂   ⚅⚃   ⚅⚄  ⚅⚅

Since we are given that the sum is a two-digit number, we can take
away all the rolls whose sum is not a 2-digit, but only a a 1-digit
number, and we will just have the red ones left as our reduced
sample space:


                          ⚃⚅

                     ⚄⚄  ⚄⚅

                ⚅⚃   ⚅⚄  ⚅⚅ 

And the only one of those rolls whose sum is divisible by 3 is
the one whose sum is 12, ⚅⚅.

That's 1 out of 6.

Answer 1/6.

Edwin