Tuesday, 22 November 2016

PROBABILITY 10



A coin is tossed and a single 6-sided die is rolled. Find the probability of landing on the head side of the coin and rolling a 4 on the die.


Solution

P(head)
 = 
1
2
P(4)
 = 
1
6
P(head and 4)
 = 
P(head)
 · 
P(4)

 = 
1
 · 
1
2
6
 = 
 1 
12
Hence probability of choosing a head and then a four is 1/12  .



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A coin is tossed and a single 6-sided die is rolled. Find the probability of landing on the head side of the coin and rolling a 2 on the die.


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