Two dice whose larger value is exactly four
Question
Two fair six-sided dice are thrown. What is the probability that the larger of the two numbers shown equals ?
Short answer
. The maximum is at most with probability and at most with probability . The difference, , is the chance the maximum is exactly .
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- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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