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5 dice (Posted on 2017-05-22)

Andy rolls five regular dice.
What is more likely: rolling no sixes or rolling exactly one six?

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There are 5^5 ways to roll no sixes.

There are 5 * (5^4) ways to roll exactly one six.

So the two are equally likely.

Posted by Steve Herman on 2017-05-22 08:43:18

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