Rarest event from two dice and a coin
Question
Using only two throws of a fair die and one toss of a fair coin as your randomness, you want to build an event that happens with probability . What is the smallest positive you can achieve?
Short answer
. The experiment has equally likely outcomes, so any event has probability . The smallest positive value comes from a single outcome, e.g. both dice show and the coin lands heads.
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Applications — Monte Carlo Estimation, Error, and Confidence Intervals
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