The event of throwing a die is independent ( second throw is independent of first )
P[ A 6 ] = 1/6
P[ A non 6 ] = 5/6
g) P[ the first two rolls are 6 ] = P[ A 6 ]*P[ A 6 ]
P[ the first two rolls are 6 ] = (1/6)*(1/6)
P[ the first two rolls are 6 ] = 1/36
h) P[ the first double in second and third rolls ] = P[ A non 6 ]*P[ A 6 ]*P[ A 6 ]
P[ the first double in second and third rolls ] = (5/6)*(1/6)*(1/6)
P[ the first double in second and third rolls ] = 5/216
i)
P[ the first double in third and fourth rolls ] = P[ A non 6 ]*P[ A non 6 ]*P[ A 6 ]*P[ A 6 ]
P[ the first double in third and fourth rolls ] = (5/6)*(5/6)*(1/6)*(1/6)
P[ the first double in third and fourth rolls ] = 25/1296
You repeatedly throw a dice. 1. Compute the probability of the following events. Write these events...
Exercise I: More dice rolls You repeatedly throw a dice. 1. Compute the probability of the following events. Write these events precisely using other events, and say where you use assumptions such as independence or disjoint- ness. Give your results as a single simplified fraction. (a) The first roll is even and the second one is odd. (b) The first five rolls are even. (c) The first roll is even and the second one is odd, or the first roll...
Example Consider the following dice game. A pair of standard ( fair ) dice are repeatedly rolled. If a ’ 7 ’ comes up before an ’ 11 ’ , then the player wins, otherwise the player loses. Let W be the event that the player wins. Find P(W). To say the dice are fair is equivalent to assuming that Laplace’s rule holds and the 36 possible outcomes for a throw of the dice are equally likely. For convenience, an...
What is the most likely outcome when we throw two fair dice,
i.e., what is the most likely sum that the two dice would add to?
Why? This problem can be solved by first principles. The probability
P(E) for an event E is the ratio |E|/|S|, where |E| is the
cardinality of the event space and |S| is the cardinality of the
sample space. For example, when we throw a fair die, the event
space is S = {1,2,3,4,5,6} and...
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