Question

Two Fair six-sided dice are rolled and the face values are added. What is the probability of obtaining an even number less than 7?

Answer 1

The probability is 1/4

Explanation:

In this question, we are interested in calculating the probability of obtaining even numbers which are less than 7, when two fair six-sided dice are rolled.

Now, mathematically the probability will be;

number of even numbers less than 7/total number of outcomes

Firstly, the total number of outcomes is 36. Now to get the number of even numbers less than 7, we need to construct tables that could show our sample space.

Please check attachment for this.

Now from the constructed table, we can find the number of even numbers less than 7.

By counting, we can see that the we have 9 even numbers which are less than 7

Thus, the probability of selecting an even number which is less than 7 is;

9/36 = 1/4