Ways for eight dice to total twelve
Question
Eight fair six-sided dice are rolled. Writing the probability that their faces add up to as , find .
Short answer
330. Every die shows at least , accounting for ; the other pips are spread over dice, and no die can exceed . By stars and bars that is outcomes.
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Series and the Geometric Series: Partial Sums and Convergence
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