Suppose you roll an eight-sided die two times hoping to get two numbers whose sum is greater than . What is the sample space? How many favorable outcomes are there?

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anonymous · Answer

oops
there are $8\times 8=64$ elements in the sample space, but something is missing from the question

anonymous · Answer

greater then 10

parthkohli · Answer

I think you should list them all down on a paper :/ let's see what sat has to say.
P.S: I'm 99 now

anonymous · Answer

yeah you need to list them, there are a lot. the list will look something like
(3,8), 
(4,7) (4,8)
(5,6) (5,7) (5,8)
(6,5) (6,6) (6,7) (6,8)
(7,4) (7,5) (7,6) (7,7) (7,8)
(8,3) (8,4) (8,5) (8,6) (8,7) (8,8)

 count them up and divide by 64

parthkohli · Answer

Triangular numbers....I see

anonymous · Answer

well thats all the question says :/

parthkohli · Answer

What's 21/64?