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A single sided die is rolled what is the probabilty of rolling a 2 or a 5?

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Answer:

Just think this through… it’s pretty straightforward, and you don’t need statistics to figure it out.

There are six sides to a die — a single roll will give you one of any of those numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.

You’re asking for two of those possibilities, a 2 or a 5.

That’s two numbers out of six… which you can write as 2 divided by 6 (or 2/6).

Do the math, and that’s 1/3 — which is .33333, which is a probability of 33.3%.

Make sense?

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