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Example Question #62 : How To Find The Probability Of An Outcome
In a dice game, what is the probability of rolling a factor of 4 on a six-sided die?
To find the probability of an event, we will use the following formula:
So, in the event of rolling a factor of 4 on a dice, we can determine the number of times that event can happen. So,
because there are 3 factors of 4 on a dice:
- 1
- 2
- 4
Now, we can determine the total number of possible outcomes. We get
because there are 6 different outcomes we can get when rolling the dice:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Knowing all of this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
and we simplify.
Therefore, the probability of rolling a factor of 4 on a dice is .
Example Question #62 : How To Find The Probability Of An Outcome
In a dice game, what is the probability of rolling an odd number on a six-sided die?
To find the probability of an event, we will use the following formula:
So, in the event of rolling an odd number on a dice, we can determine the number of times that event can happen. So,
because there are 3 odd numbers on a dice:
- 1
- 3
- 5
Now, we can determine the total number of possible outcomes. We get
because there are 6 different outcomes we can get when rolling the dice:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Knowing all of this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
and we simplify.
Therefore, the probability of rolling an odd number on a dice is .
Example Question #63 : How To Find The Probability Of An Outcome
In a dice game, what is the probability of rolling an even number on one roll of a six-sided die?
To find the probability of an event, we will use the following formula:
So, if we look at the event of rolling an even number on a dice, we can determine the following:
because there are 3 ways we can roll an even number on a dice:
- 2
- 4
- 6
because there are 6 possible numbers we can roll:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Knowing all of this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
Now, we simplify.
Therefore, the probability of rolling an even number on a dice is .
Example Question #111 : Statistics & Probability
In a dice game, what is the probability of rolling a multiple of 3 on a six-sided die?
To find the probability of an event, we will use the following formula:
Now, given the event of rolling a multiple of 3 on a dice, we can determine the following.
because there are 2 multiples of 3 on a dice:
- 3
- 6
Now, we can also determine the following:
because there are 6 different numbers we could potentially roll:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
Therefore, the probability of rolling a multiple of 3 on a dice is
Example Question #61 : Probability
In a dice game, what is the probability of rolling a factor of 5 on a six-sided die?
To find the probability of an event, we will use the following formula:
Now, given the event of rolling a factor of 5, we can calculate the following.
because there are 2 factors of 5 on a dice:
- 1
- 5
We can also calculate the following.
because there are 6 different possible numbers we can roll on a dice:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
Therefore, the probability of rolling a factor of 5 on a dice is .
Example Question #65 : Probability
In a dice game, what is the probability of rolling a multiple of 2 on a six-sided die?
To find the probability of an event, we will use the following formula:
Now, given the event of rolling a multiple of 2, we can calculate the following.
because there are 3 multiples of 2 on a dice:
- 2
- 4
- 6
We can also calculate the following.
because there are 6 different possible numbers we can roll on a dice:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
Therefore, the probability of rolling a multiple of 2 on a dice is .
Example Question #66 : Probability
In a dice game, what is the probability of rolling a factor of 2 on a six-sided die?
To find the probability of an event, we will use the following formula:
Now, given the event of rolling a factor of 2 on a dice, we can calculate the following.
because there are 2 factors of 2 on a dice:
- 1
- 2
Now, we can calculate he following.
because there are 6 possible numbers we could potentially roll on a dice:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
Therefore, the probability of rolling a factor of 2 on a dice is .
Example Question #571 : Data Analysis And Probability
In a dice game, what is the probability of rolling a factor of 6 on a six-sided die?
To find the probability of an event, we will use the following formula:
Now, given the event of rolling a factor of 6 on a dice, we can calculate the following:
because there are 4 factors of 6 on a dice:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 6
Now, we can calculate the following:
because there are 6 possible outcomes we could potentially get when rolling a dice:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
Therefore, the probability of rolling a factor of 6 on a dice is .
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