Question

When playing a game, the winner must roll a number less than 3 or more than 4. What is the probability of a person winning the game?
A. 1/9
B. 1/6
C. 2/3
D. 1

I got D as my answer.

Answer 1

Is this a game of tossing a number cube?

Answer 2

On a dice...?

Less than 3: there's only 1 and 2

More than 4: there's only 5 and 6

that gives four possible outcomes. With a total of 6 outcomes.

Answer 3

ya, i was thinking either 1/6 or 1.

Answer 4

Factoid: "Die" is the singular of "Dice."

Answer 5

Yeah, i know. But... You called it a number cube...

Answer 6

Probability is the number of successes divided by the number of outcomes. A success here is 1,2, 3, 4. Possiblities are 1,2,3,4,5,6.

So, P(W)= 4/6 = ?

Answer 7

2/3!

Answer 8

I called a die a number cube because I thought I might come off as pedantic if I just jumped up and wrote "die."

Answer 9

"I remember a (possibly apocryphal) story from my days at BYU (owned & operated by the Mormon church) in the 70's. The Statistics Dept. sent through a purchase order for several sets of dice to be used for classroom instruction. The PO was rejected by the higher-ups until they changed it to request "cubical random number generators," at which point it was approved."

^ :D

from this http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348341

Answer 10

That's what they should be called from now on. Cubical random number generators.