There are one coin and a pair of dice. Suppose we flip the coin and roll the pair of dice at the same time. For the coin, if it turns out to be heads, we will get two points. On top of that, we will get points equal to the sum of two numbers from each dice. Let's define a sample space, S, as all possible pointsd we can get. What is P({Get a point equal to either 7 or 8 or 9})? What is P({Get a point equal to either 7 or 8 or 9} | {Get the tail coin})?

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There are one coin and a pair of dice. Suppose we flip the coin and roll the pair of dice at the same time. For the coin, if it turns out to be heads, we will get two points. On top of that, we will get points equal to the sum of two numbers from each dice. Let's define a sample space, S, as all possible pointsd we can get.

What is P({Get a point equal to either 7 or 8 or 9})?

What is P({Get a point equal to either 7 or 8 or 9} | {Get the tail coin})? 

 

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There are one coin and a pair of dice. Suppose we flip the coin and roll the pair of dice at the same time. For the coin, if it turns out to be heads, we will get two points. On top of that, we will get points equal to the sum of two numbers from each dice. Let us define a sample space, S, as all possible points we can get.

Let us assume the coins is fair coin also both the dice are fair. Note that both the events of tossing a coin and rolling two dice are independent of each other. We denote T for getting a tail and H for getting a head. Suppose (x,y) be a outcomes for rolling two dice. 

We know that after rolling two fair dice, the sum of number on two dice could be one of the number from {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12} so the points could be one these 11 outcomes. We get 2 points for each head and nothing for a tail.  

Suppose we get head on the coin then on total we get one of these points {2+2,3+2,4+2,5+2,6+2,7+2,8+2,9+2,10+2,11+2,12+2}.

 Suppose we get tail on the coin then on total we get one of these points {2+0,3+0,4+0,5+0,6+0,7+0,8+0,9+0,10+0,11+0,12+0}.

This gives we get on total one of these {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14} points. Number of elements in the sample space S are, 13.

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