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Using Cards as Dice (Posted on 2004-08-09) Difficulty: 2 of 5
A deck of nine cards can be numbered, so that the sum of the numbers on a randomly chosen pair of cards totals to an integer from 2 to 12 with the same frequency as rolling two standard dice. What are the numbers on the nine cards?

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re: WITH OR WITHOUT | Comment 5 of 9 |
(In reply to WITH OR WITHOUT by Ady TZIDON)

A card selected twice is not a "pair of cards".  I think the wording clearly implies that one should randomly take TWO cards at one time.

(Or if as you imply, one takes one card at a time, then the wording means without replacement.)
  Posted by SilverKnight on 2004-08-09 11:59:33

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