Seeing 1, 3 and 5 before any even roll
Question
You keep rolling a fair six-sided die. What is the probability that each of the odd faces , and has appeared at least once before any even face appears?
Short answer
. Only the order in which the six faces first appear matters, and all orders are equally likely. We need the three odd faces to occupy the first three places: .
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- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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