Question

Two six sided dice are thrown at the same time and the sum of what lands up is obwserved. What is the probabiilty that the sum of the tiwo dice is 12? Note that the sample space consists of these sums of two dice. Report your answer to 3 decimal places.

Answer 1

The number of possible outcomes with two dice is 36. The probability of rolling a sum of 12 is 1 outcome from the 36.

Therefore p(sum of 12) = 1/36 = 0.0277778