Question

You roll a six-sided number cube and flip a coin. What is the probability of rolling a number less than 2 and flipping heads? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Answer 1

There are 6 sides to this cube.

There are two sides to this coin.

To roll a number less than two, you can only roll a 1.

So there is a 1/6 chance of getting a 1.

To get heads on a coin, there is only a 1/2 chance.

If you wanted to get both these desired outcomes, the chance of getting these are;

1/6 x 1/2

= 1/12 is the probability.