In a game of Catan, each turn two balanced die are rolled (each dice is six sided) and the numbers on the two die is added to determine the score (X) For example, if one dice shows 4 and

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In a game of Catan, each turn two balanced die are rolled (each dice is six sided) and the numbers on the two die is added to determine the score (X) For example, if one dice shows 4 and the other 3, then the score is 4+3=7. (The score in each turn is used to calculate how many resources each player gets).

1. How many unique values can X take?
2. Calculate the probability of each possible value of X.
3. Imagine you get 1 wheat resource every time the score is 1 or 6. What is the probability you get 1 wheat?
4. In a game of 50 turns, how many times do you expect to see a score of 7?

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When two fair dice are rolled.

The outcomes in a sample space is,

S={(1,1),(1,2),(1,3),(1,4),(1,5),(1,6)

       (2,1),(2,2),(2,3),(2,4),(2,5),(2,6)

       (3,1),(3,2),(3,3),(3,4),(3,5),(3,6)

       (4,1),(4,2),(4,3),(4,4),(4,5),(4,6)

       (5,1),(5,2),(5,3),(5,4),(5,5),(5,6)

      (6,1),(6,2),(6,3),(6,4),(6,5),(6,6)}

Let x denote the score of sum of dice when two dies are rolled  .

Score(X) number of outcomes
   
2 (1,1)
3 (1,2)(3,6)
4 (1,3)(2,2)(3,1)
5 (1,4)(2,3)(3,2)(4,1)
6 (1,5)(2,4)(3,3)(4,2)(5,1)
7 (1,6)(2,5)(3,4)(4,3)(5,2)(6,1)
8 (2,6)(3,5)(4,4)(5,3)(6,2)
9 (3,6)(4,5)(5,4)(6,3)
10 (4,6)(5,5)(6,4)
11 (5,6)(6,5)
12 (6,6)

The number of unique values x can take is, 11.

That is, {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}

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