Question

The table below shows the possible outcomes of rolling a six-sided number cube and flipping a coin. What is the probability of getting a number less than 3 and a tails?

Answer 1

1/6

Explanation:

Answer 2

`(1)/(6)`

Explanation:

Use the definition of probability:

`P=\frac{\text{Number of favorable outcomes}}{\text{Number of all possible outcomes}}`

The table shows 12 possible outcoms (6 numbers for head and 6 numbers for tail), so

Number of all possible outcomes = 12

Getting a number less than 3 and a tail is possible when rolling 1 or 2 and flipping T (tail), so there are two favorable outcomes T! and T@.

Number of favorable outcomes = 2

`P=(2)/(12)=(1)/(6)`