What are the odds and probability of rolling 5 dice, and all 5 dice are the same number?
2 Answers
Explanation:
There are six faxes with six distinct numbers. For each dice, the
probability is (number of favorable cases)/(the total number of all possible cases).
Because any first roll is favorable, this probability can be modeled by:
For all showing the same number, it is the compound probability
= product of the separate probabilities.
Odds are
Explanation:
Let's look at the probability first.
They must be all
The odds are given as a ratio of the number of ways this will happen compared to the number of ways it doesn't.
So if the first die is
The odds for this happening are