Exactly three primes in six die rolls
Question
A fair die is rolled six times, and a roll counts as a success when it shows a prime number. What is the probability of exactly three successes?
Short answer
. Three faces () are prime, so each roll succeeds with probability and the count is . Thus .
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- Random Variables and Probability Mass Functions
- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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