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You roll a cube find the probability of rolling an even number?

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Answer: 1/2

Step-by-step explanation: Note that to roll an even number, we can roll a 2, 4, or 6.

So there are three ways to roll an even number.

Now let's use our ratio for the probability of an event.

P(event) = number of favorable outcomes/total number of outcomes

Since we want to find the probability of rolling a 3, the number of favorable outcomes for rolling a 3 will go on top in the ratio.

Also, remember that a number cube has six total outcomes.

So 6 will go in the bottom of our ratio

So the probability of rolling an even number is 3/6.

However, we can reduced 3/6 to 1/2.

Always reduce when finding probability.

So the probability or likelihood of rolling an even number is 1/2.

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