Question

You roll two dice. What is the probability that the sum of the dice is greater than 6 and one die shows a 3? A 6 X 6 table of dice outcomes will help you to answer this question.

Answer 1

Something like this table

http://bestcase.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dicediagram.jpg

should help

Answer 2

@jim_thompson5910 would you be able to explain the table? I don't really understand how to look for the answer

Answer 3

Basically every entry in the table is the result of adding the two dice values

For instance, row1, column3 has the element '4'

this is the result of 1+3 (1 in row 1, all the way to the left...3 in column 3, at the very top)

Answer 4

do you see how the table is generated?

Answer 5

yes i understand that, but what confuses me is that i would have to write the answer in fractions and these are my options
A. 1/3
B.6/21
C. 25/36
D. 1/6

and i don't know how to generate those fractions from the table

Answer 6

I know you already got it, but I figured I'd post this anyway (it's another example)

Answer 7

Anyways, let's focus on the question

What is the probability that the sum of the dice is greater than 6 and one die shows a 3?

Answer 8

let's highlight the row that starts with 3 and the column that starts with 3

Answer 9

How many numbers did I highlight?

Answer 10

11

Answer 11

which of those sums are larger than 6?

Answer 12

6

Answer 13

how many numbers are in the table total

Answer 14

36

Answer 15

so the probability is 6/36 = 1/6

Answer 16

thank you so much! :)

Answer 17

np