Question

You roll two dice. What is the probability that the sum of the dice is even or the sum of the dice is less than 6? Make sure you only account for dice sums that are both even and less than 6 once.
A 6X6 table of dice outcomes will help you to answer this question.

Answer 1

can you create the 6x6 outcomes table?

Answer 2

indeed, still dont get it though

Answer 3

how many sums are even?

Answer 4

sums of what

Answer 5

for example, how many ways to get the even sum of 2? your table should show that...

Answer 6

once,.. in the chart there are 18 even numbers.

Answer 7

now how many 4s?

Answer 8

3

Answer 9

56's

Answer 10

5-6's

Answer 11

ok... count all the numbers of getting evens add them all up

Answer 12

all the way up to the sum of 12

Answer 13

sorry, you already answered the question for evens... there are 18 i didn't see your post.

Answer 14

1962

Answer 15

ohh lol 18 then :)

Answer 16

yea, now add to that, the number of sums less than 6

Answer 17

don't double count the even you already counted.

Answer 18

28

Answer 19

sums less than 6 is 5, 4, 3, 2. but since you counted 4 and 2 already you're only counting the 5 and 3.. there are only 6 of them.

Answer 20

24

Answer 21

so 24/36 =

Answer 22

2/3

Answer 23

that's it!
btw.. do you know why we divided by 36?

Answer 24

cuz those are the total sums

Answer 25

yes, the table shows every possible outcome of throwing two dice. all we did is count what we needed then divided that by the total possible outcomes.