An experiment consists of rolling three fair dice --- a red die, a blue die, and a white die --- and recording the number rolled on each die. Assume that the dice are fair, so that all outcomes are equally likely.(1) What probability should be assigned to each outcome?   (2) What is the probability that the sum of the numbers rolled is 6?   (3) What is the probability that the sum of the numbers rolled is at most 5?

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Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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An experiment consists of rolling three fair dice --- a red die, a blue die, and a white die --- and recording the number rolled on each die. Assume that the dice are fair, so that all outcomes are equally likely.

(1) What probability should be assigned to each outcome?

 


(2) What is the probability that the sum of the numbers rolled is 6?

 


(3) What is the probability that the sum of the numbers rolled is at most 5?

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