Question

Harold flips a coin and rolls a standard number cube. Find the probability that the coin will show tails and the cube will show a seven. Write the probability as a fraction in simplest form.

Answer 1

In a coin, the two probabilities are 50-50 since there are only two sides of the coin while in a cube, there are 6 sides which means the probability of each number is 1/6. The probability that the coin will show tails and the cube will show a seven is (1/2)*(1/6) = 1/12 or 0.0833 or 8.33%