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In a certain board game, a player rolls two fair six-sided dice until the player rolls doubles (where the value on each die is the same). The probability of rolling doubles with one roll of two fair six-sided dice is.

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There are 36 possible combinations from rolling two dice.

There are 6 combinations of doubles that could be rolled.

6/36 = 1/6 ≈ 0.1667 or about 16.67%.

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