Question

Anyone there to kill this sum in few steps?
Five fair dice are thrown. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the upper face of the five dice is 15?

Answer 1

well on 5 dice you have 6^5 arrangements

so then you need to look at how many ways you can get 15

Answer 2

i cant kill the sum, but i can try to answer the question

Answer 3

Can you suggest a fast method to do so?

Answer 4

yeah, theres a pattern

Answer 5

using a generating function

Answer 6

http://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=grrj

Answer 7

scroll down to page

Answer 8

page 113

Answer 9

Can you copy and paste the thing I should refer??

Answer 10

@perl Thanks a lot...