Sixty-sided die beating a forty-sided die
Question
You roll one fair die with faces – and another fair die with faces –. What is the probability that the -sided die shows the strictly larger number?
Short answer
. With probability the big die lands above and wins outright. Otherwise both dice are uniform on –: they tie with chance and otherwise each is equally likely to be higher, giving . Total .
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- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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