Random unit cube from a painted 5x5x5 block
Question
The outside of a cube is painted red, and the cube is then sawn into unit cubes. You choose one of the small cubes uniformly at random and roll it like a die. What is the probability that the face landing on top is red?
Short answer
. The painted faces total , out of small-cube faces in all, and the top face is a uniform choice among them. That gives .
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- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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