SOLUTION: if six sided dice are rolled what Is the probability of getting a sum of 5 or 11?

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Question 849154: if six sided dice are rolled what Is the probability of getting a sum of 5 or 11?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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Assuming 2 of these dice are rolled. Make a table like you see below


(Image Source: http://bestcase.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/an-empirical-approach-to-dice-probability/)

Note: each cell is found by adding the row and column header. For instance, the '8' in row 3, column 5 is found by adding 3 and 5. So 3+5 = 8. The other cells are found this way.


You can see that there are 4 copies of '5' and 2 copies of '11'. So there are 4+2 = 6 copies of what we want (which is either 5 or 11).

This is out of 6*6 = 36 possible outcomes.

So the answer as a fraction is 6%2F36+=+1%2F6