Question

For exercises 1-11 a dime is flipped and a single die is rolled
1. use the counting principle to determine the number of outcomes

Answer 1

There are two possibilities for a coin flip, and six possibilities for the die,
put them together and you get....

Answer 2

2. list the sample space of all possible outcomes

Answer 3

So the coin could be Heads and the die 1, or the coin could be Tails and the die 1, or the coin heads and the die 2.......Just keep going until you run out of possibilities.

Answer 4

H1-H6 and T1-T5 and so on

Answer 5

you got the idea.

Answer 6

3. find the possibility of getting heads and a three

Answer 7

You should have a list of possible outcomes. Count how many give a heads and a three and divide it by the total.

Answer 8

how do I do that?

Answer 9

You have the list we just made H1,H2,...,H6,T1,T2,....T6. Count how many times H3 occurs in the list. Count all the things in the list.

Divide the first number by the second.

Answer 10

I get the answer of 1 to 12

Answer 11

perfect!