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Make it Even (Posted on 2003-03-30) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Timothy and Urban play a game with two dice. But they do not use the numbers. Some of the faces are painted red and the others blue. Each player throws the dice in turn. Timothy wins when the two top faces are the same color. Urban wins when the colors are different. Their chances are even.

The first die has 5 red faces and 1 blue face. How many red and how many blue are there on the second die?

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Tricky tricky | Comment 9 of 13 |
When I first looked at it, i thought that it would be the same number of blue faces as red faces on the second one. BUT, then I looked closely at the fact that timothy wins when both sides are the same color. SO..... I figured it out that it had to be..... 3 red and 3 blue AHHSHISDAHaha ha ha woo yah YES.
  Posted by Chaz on 2003-05-03 02:59:12
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