Two coins and a number cube are tossed at the same time. What is the approximate probability that the coins show different sides and the number cube shows a 1 or 6?

The probability for the coins, I would think the answer is 2. They could either be different sides or the same. With the cube there is a probability of 6. there are 6 sides it could land on, and since it is just one cube, it is only 6. Hope this helps!

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facundo3141592 facundo3141592 · Answer 2 · 2022-04-22T13:27:12+02:00

The probability that the coins show different sides, and rolling a 1 or a 6 is:

P = 0.1667

How to get the probability?

Here the experiment is tossing two coins and rolling a number cube of 2 sides.

We know that:

For each coin, the probability of getting tails(heads) is 1/2.
For the dice, the probability of getting each number is 1/6.

Now we want to get the probability of getting different outcomes for the coins is given by:

The first coin can have any outcome, so here the probability is 1.

The second coin must have a different outcome, so now we have a restriction, then the probability is P = 0.5

Finally, the probability of rolling a 1 or a 6 (2 outcomes out of 6) is:

P(1 or 6) = 2/6

The joint probability for the event is the product of the individual probabilities:

P = 1*1/2*2/6 = 1/6 = 0.1667

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