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probability question
    #7389743 - 09/09/07 09:04 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

anyone here good with probability?

A pair of fair dice are tossed 3 times. Find the probability that the sum of 7 or 11 appears exactly twice.

i missed class all last week it was at 8:30 :shrug:


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Re: probability question [Re: hailtothethief]
    #7389792 - 09/09/07 09:15 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

find all possible combinations that add up to 7 or 11 and divide that by the total number of possible combinations. then multiply that by itself.

i think that's how it goes but i'm a little stoned. :bongload:


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Re: probability question [Re: hailtothethief]
    #7389807 - 09/09/07 09:19 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

hailtothethief said:
anyone here good with probability?

A pair of fair dice are tossed 3 times. Find the probability that the sum of 7 or 11 appears exactly twice.

i missed class all last week it was at 8:30 :shrug:



are they tossed by a left handed person, right handed person, or game dice cup?


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Re: probability question [Re: maggotz]
    #7389810 - 09/09/07 09:20 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

na thats not it :frown:  but math is always hard stoned so its cool


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Re: probability question [Re: California]
    #7389854 - 09/09/07 09:33 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

they are spat out of a naked 2 foot midgets mouth onto a strippers tabletop ass

of course my fucking asian calculator friend isnt online now :frown:


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Re: probability question [Re: hailtothethief]
    #7389861 - 09/09/07 09:35 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

:crankey: i got a little rusty but here ya go.

the probability of landing a 7 is 1/6 cuz there are 6 combinations out of 36 that give you a sum of 7. ( 1 and 6, 6 and 1, 2 and 5, 5 and 2, 3 and 4, 4 and 3).
and the probability of landing an 11 is 1/18 cuz only 2 out of 36 possible combinations give you a sum of 11. ( 5 and 6, 6 and 5).

now, event A is landing a 7 and event B is landing an 11.

A and B are mutually exclusive therefore
P(A U B) = P(A) + P(B) = 1/6 + 1/18 = 2/9

or


the total number of points at which the event "A U B" (n)happens divided by the total number of possible points (N).
P(A U B) = n/N = 8/36 = 2/9

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Edited by maggotz (09/09/07 11:06 PM)


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Re: probability question [Re: maggotz]
    #7389922 - 09/09/07 09:52 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

i dont think you are factoring in that it can only happen TWICE, not three times. Its multiple choice and these are the answers...
8/729
28/243
28/729
4/27
5/72

fucking damn curveball of the problem is that it has to be exactly twice


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Re: probability question [Re: maggotz]
    #7389925 - 09/09/07 09:55 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

kjbkjhilkhih


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Re: probability question [Re: hailtothethief]
    #7389930 - 09/09/07 09:56 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

ahh i had read you tossed the dice twice. but you got the idea now, right?


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Re: probability question [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #7389936 - 09/09/07 09:58 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

You have two dice. You are rolling them three times. You want to roll a 7 or an 11 on two of the rows. The third roll can be any number but 7 or 11.

There are 8 ways you can roll a 7 or 11, so there are 28 ways to not roll a 7 or 11. Fucking this class was called calculus 125... why am i being taught this bullshit.


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Re: probability question [Re: hailtothethief]
    #7389946 - 09/09/07 10:02 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

oh, so you don't have to roll the same number two out of three times.

You can roll a seven and an eleven, or two sevens or two elevens?


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Re: probability question [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #7389953 - 09/09/07 10:04 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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nakors_junk_bag said:
a 6 and 1 is exactly the same thing as a 1 and a 6, there are only three possible rolls to land a seven with two dice, 1 and 6, 5 and two and a 3 and 4.

with an eleven there is 1, a five and a 6.

you need to find the percents. If there are 22 posible rolls., the chance of landing a 7 would be the the number of combinations(3) that create 7 into the the total number of possible outcomes 36.

possible dice rolls:
1,1
1,2
1,3
1,4
1,5
1,6
2,2,
2,3
2,4,
2,5,
2,6
3,3,
3,4,
3,5
3,6
4,4
4,5,
4,6
5,5,
5,6
6,6

that would be like one in every seven. will roll you a seven.
Now you need to find the odds for rolling it in three right?

please bare in mind its been ten years since my probability classes.



if i have two coins, each has a red side and a black side. how many possible combinations are there for red and black?

one or two?
coin a = red, coin b = black
or
coin a = black, coin b = red


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Re: probability question [Re: maggotz]
    #7389954 - 09/09/07 10:04 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

not really, but hey man thanks anyways at least you tried..


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Re: probability question [Re: hailtothethief]
    #7389961 - 09/09/07 10:05 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

sorry if i'm not explaining myself clearly but, like i said, i'm a little stoned.


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Re: probability question [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #7389962 - 09/09/07 10:05 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

you could roll 2 7s, a 7 and 11, an 11 and 7, two 11s, etc. You just have to roll either one of them twice, but only twice out of the three rolls

so like... 7, 11, (any number but 7 or 11)


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Re: probability question [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #7389963 - 09/09/07 10:06 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

28/729?


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Re: probability question [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #7389968 - 09/09/07 10:07 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

now thats what i thought, but a girl across the hall submitted that answer and it was wrong.


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Re: probability question [Re: maggotz]
    #7389973 - 09/09/07 10:09 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

nooo wait. 2/9 is the probability of landing either a 7 or a 11 trowing the dice once. i didn't really understand what the original problem was. my bad. :ashamed:


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Re: probability question [Re: maggotz]
    #7389978 - 09/09/07 10:11 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

well we know the probablility of it being one of the answers left just became greater.


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Re: probability question [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #7389979 - 09/09/07 10:11 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

ok make a square with 36 spaces, 1-6 on each side. then add the numbers and put them in the corresponding square...

blah blah

5 ways to get 7, 2 ways to get 11.
7+2=9
9/36 = 1/3.

GO TO CLASS NEXT TIME.


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