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A six-sided fair dice is rolled once. What is the probability that the number rolled is an even number greater than 2?

1 2 \frac{1}{2} 1 3 \frac{1}{3} 2 3 \frac{2}{3} 1 6 \frac{1}{6}

Chung Kevin by Chung Kevin , 45, Australia

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2 solutions

Manu Attri
Mar 26, 2015

even number greater than 2 are 4 and 6. so there is only two favourable cases out of the 6 cases. so ans=2/6=1/3

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Brock Brown
Mar 27, 2015

Python 2.7: 

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count = 0
rolls = 6.0
for roll in xrange(1, 7):
    if roll > 2 and roll % 2 == 0:
        count += 1
print "Answer:", count/rolls

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Yay! Did the same thing! HighFive.gif

Pi Han Goh - 6 years, 2 months ago

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high five high five high five 2 high five 2

Brock Brown - 6 years, 2 months ago

I must say u r really good at python.

Kyle Finch - 6 years, 2 months ago

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Thanks. :D

Brock Brown - 6 years, 2 months ago

Oh really ....

Chung Kevin - 6 years, 2 months ago

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