Small dice total given two or more even faces
Question
You throw three fair six-sided dice. Knowing that two or more of them came up even, find the probability that the three values add up to at most .
Short answer
. Mapping each die swaps parity, so exactly half of the outcomes, , have at least two even faces. Among those, the ones with total at most are permutations of , , and : .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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