Tuesday, February 18, 2014

32: Roll, roll, roll the two dice.

When rolling 2 dice are there 36, 11, or 42 outcomes in the sample space?


Or is it: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 ... thus 11?

Or is it:


Does it matter if the dice are the same color?
Does having different colored dice change the probabilities?

1 comment:

  1. A variation on the two dice problem:

    http://fivetriangles.blogspot.com/2013/11/119-point-on-number-line.html

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