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Q.

A person throws two dice, one the common cube, and the other a regular tetrahedron the number on the lowest face being taken in the case of the tetrahedron; then find the probability that the sum of the numbers appearing on the dice is 6 ___

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answer is 0.166.

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Detailed Solution

Let S be the sample space then
S ={1,2,3,4}×{1,2,3,4,5,6};n(S) = 24
If E be the event that the sum of the numbers on the
dice is 6.
Then n(E)= coefficient of x6 in
x1+x2+x3+x4×x1+x2+x3+x4+x5+x6=1+1+1+1=4 Required probability P(E)=n(E)n(S)=424=16

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