When rolling two standard six-sided dice and adding the numbers, what is the probability of the following? (Enter your probabilities as fractions.) (a) getting a 3 (b) getting an even number (c) getting a prime number (d) rolling doubles

When rolling two standard six-sided dice and adding the numbers, what is the probability of the following? (Enter your probabilities as fractions.) (a) getting a 3 (b) getting an even number (c) getting a prime number (d) rolling doubles

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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When rolling two standard six-sided dice and adding the numbers, what is the probability of the following? (Enter your probabilities as fractions.)

(a)

getting a 3

(b)

getting an even number

(c)

getting a prime number

(d)

rolling doubles

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