What is the probability of rolling a sum of 10 with two dice?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-02T12:15:56

$1/12$

$6 & 4, 5 & 5, 4 & 6$ .

Each has probability $1/36$ so aggregate is $3/36=1/12$

The following chart shows the probability of throwing $n$ with two dice.
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The more dice you throw, the more this distribution tends towards a normal distribution.

Answer 2 · 2017-07-09T17:56:32

$P(10) = 1/12$

If you roll two dice, there are $6xx6 = 36$ possible outcomes.

There are only three different ways of getting a total of $10$

$4+6=10$
$5+5= 10$
$6+4 =10$

$"Probability of an event" = ("number of desirable outcomes")/("total number of possible outcomes")$

$P(10) = 3/36 = 1/12$