Two coins decide how many dice: odd total
Question
Abdelrahman tosses two fair coins and then throws one fair six-sided die for every head that appeared. If no dice are thrown the total is . What is the probability that the total shown on the dice is odd?
Short answer
. Condition on the number of heads: with heads (prob ) the total is , even; with head (prob ) one die is odd half the time; with heads (prob ) the sum of two dice is odd half the time. So .
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- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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