Question

The faces of an 8-sided die are numbered from 1 to 8. What is the probability of rolling a 5 three times in ten rolls?

Answer 1

what's the probability of rolling a 5 once?

Answer 2

5/6

Answer 3

how do you get 5/6

Answer 4

Do you want to learn how to do this or do you just want the answer?

Answer 5

as you like show me the steps

Answer 6

what's the probability of rolling a 6 if you're rolling one time?

Answer 7

1

Answer 8

you're saying if you roll a die, you have a 100% chance of getting a 6? have you ever tried rolling a die? :-)

Answer 9

yeah

Answer 10

i'll give you a hint - the probability of getting any result on a die is the same. If I ask you the probability of getting a 2, or a probability of getting a 6, your answer should be the same

Answer 11

well anyway the answer is 12353145/134217728

Answer 12

the total answer

Answer 13

yes

Answer 14

thnx but i need the steps i know the final answer 0.09

Answer 15

okay what's the probability of getting a 5 once

Answer 16

1/6

Answer 17

that's for a 6 sided die but your problem uses a special die

Answer 18

1/8

Answer 19

okay now just plug that into the PDF of the binomial distribution with p=1/8 , n=10 and i=3 and you get .0920381

Answer 20

thnx so much