A coin is flipped and die is rolled once. What is the probability of flipping a heads on the coin and rolling a 1 on the die? Give your answer as a reduced fraction.

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A coin is flipped and die is rolled once. What is the
probability of flipping a heads on the coin and rolling a 1 on
the die? Give your answer as a reduced fraction.
Transcribed Image Text:A coin is flipped and die is rolled once. What is the probability of flipping a heads on the coin and rolling a 1 on the die? Give your answer as a reduced fraction.
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When a coin is tossed then there are two possible outcomes. Head and tail.

So the probability of flipping head is= 12

 

When a die is rolled then there are 6 possible outcomes. 

So the probability of rolling 1 on the die is=16

 

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