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Consider rolling a pair of unusual dice, for which the faces have the number of pips indicated.
a. List the sample space for the experiment.
b. Compute the probability of each possible sum of the upward faces on the dice.
c. What is the expected value of the sum of the numbers on the upward faces of the 2 dice?
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