Relabelled die making sums 1 to 12 uniform
Question
You have a standard die numbered to and a second fair six-sided die whose faces carry unknown numbers (not necessarily to ). Rolling both, every total from to is equally likely. What do the faces of the second die add up to?
Short answer
18. Twelve equally likely totals over outcomes means each total occurs times. A total of needs a on the mystery die three times, and a total of needs a three times, so the faces are , summing to .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Series and the Geometric Series: Partial Sums and Convergence
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