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You have 3 fair 6-sided dice. You repeatedly roll all 3 at once, until all 3 of them show thesame number. What is the probability that you have to tryat leasttwice

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35/36 or about 0.972

Explanation:

The probability of rolling the same number

first die 6/6

second die 1/6

third die 1/6

1(1/6)(1/6) = 1/36

so there is a 35/36 chance that you will not get it done on the first roll and need to attempt at least one more time.

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