Two number cubes are rolled --one white and one yellow. How do you find the probability that the white cube shows a 6 and the sum is greater than 9?
1 Answer
Apr 24, 2017
Explanation:
I'm going to assume that we're working with fair, standard, 6-sided dice.
Let's look at the possible rolls (I'll highlight the white cube's 6 and sums greater than 9 with
There are 3 ways we can have the white cube be a 6 and the sum of the two cubes be greater than 9. This is out of 36 possible rolls, and so we can say: