Julie throws a fair red dice once and a fair blue dice once. How do you calculate the probability that Julie gets a six on both the red dice and blue dice. Secondly, calculate the probability that Julie gets at least one six?
1 Answer
Aug 19, 2016
Explanation:
Probability of getting a six when you roll a fair die is
For the first case, event A is getting a six on the red die and event B is getting a six on the blue die.
For the second case, we first want to consider the probability of getting no sixes.
The probability of a single die not rolling a six is obviously
We know that if we add up the probabilities of all the possible outcomes we will get 1, so