You roll two standar number cubes. find the probability that the sum will be even or a multiple of 3?

1 Answer
May 31, 2018

# 2/3#.

Explanation:

Let, #E# be the event the sum on two number (no.) cubes is even,

and, #F#, the sum be a multiple of #3#.

#"The Reqd. Prob."=P(EuuF)=P(E)+P(F)-P(EnnF)#.

By the order pair #(x,y)#, we wish to denote that the no. #x# and #y#

have come up on the face of the #1^(st) and 2^(nd)# no. cube, resp.

Clearly, the sample space #S# associated with the given random experiment is given by,

#S={(1,1),(1,2),...,(1,6),(2,1),(2,2),...,(2,6),...,(6,1),(6,2),...(6,6)}.#

#:."The no. of elements in "S=n(S)=36#.

Further,

#E={(1,1),(1,3),(1,5),(2,2),(2,4),(2,6),(3,1),(3,3),(3,5),(4,2),(4,4),(4,6),(5,1),(5,3),(5,5),(6,2),(6,4),(6,6)},#

#F={(1,2),(1,5),(2,1),(2,4),(3,3),(3,6),(4,2),(4,5),(5,1),(5,4),(6,3),(6,6)},#

#EnnF={(1,5),(2,4),(3,3),(4,2),(5,1),(6,6)}#.

#:. n(E)=18, n(F)=12, n(EnnF)=6#.

#:. P(E)=(n(E))/(n(S))=18/36, P(F)=12/36, P(EnnF)=6/36#.

#:."The Reqd. Prob."=18/36+12/36-6/36=24/36=2/3#.

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