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A die is rolled twice. what is the probability of getting either a multiple of 3 on the first roll or a total of 7 for both rolls?

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Answer: 4/9

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A die is rolled twice. what is the probability of getting either a multiple of 3 on-example-1
User Arlenis
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There would be a 44.4% chance of either of these happening.

In order to find this we have to find out how many total possibilities there are. Because we have two die each with 6 sides, we have 36 total options.

Of those options, 12 of them start with either a 3 or 6, which are multiples of 3. So we can add 12 to our lists of successes.

Of those options, there are 4 more that don't start with those numbers, but do equal 7. (1 and 6, 2 and 5, 4 and 3, 5 and 2). So we can add 4 to our list of successes.

Knowing we have 12 and 4 successes, we can add them together to get 16. We can then divide that by the total options (36) to find the percentage above.
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