A coin is tossed, and a number cube is rolled. What is the probability of tossing heads, and rolling a 3 or a 5?
1 Answer
Sep 4, 2016
Explanation:
For this question, we have 2 independent events. The total probability will be the product of the two individual probabilities, so
With the coin toss, it's 50/50 to get heads, so we get:
With the die roll (assuming a standard 6-sided die), we have two possible results we're looking for so we have:
And now we can find the total probability: