Table of Contents
- 1 What is the probability of getting a total of 5?
- 2 What is the chance of throwing a total of 5 or 6 in a single throw of two dice?
- 3 What is the probability of seeing at least one 5 when throwing a pair of dice?
- 4 How does the number of dice affect the distribution function?
- 5 How do you solve a dice problem with two dice?
What is the probability of getting a total of 5?
Two (6-sided) dice roll probability table
| Roll a… | Probability |
|---|---|
| 3 | 2/36 (5.556\%) |
| 4 | 3/36 (8.333\%) |
| 5 | 4/36 (11.111\%) |
| 6 | 5/36 (13.889\%) |
What is the probability of getting a total of 5 when a pair of dice is tossed simultaneously?
Probabilities for the two dice
| Total | Number of combinations | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3 | 8.33\% |
| 5 | 4 | 11.11\% |
| 6 | 5 | 13.89\% |
| 7 | 6 | 16.67\% |
What is the chance of throwing a total of 5 or 6 in a single throw of two dice?
1/4
What is the probability of getting a sum of 5 or 6 when a pair of dice is rolled? Probability of getting a sum of 5 or 6 = 9/36 = 1/4.
What is the probability of getting at most one five in a single throw of the two dice?
5/18
What is the probability of getting at most one five in a single throw of the two dice? Answer: The required probability of getting at most one five in a single throw of the two dice is 5/18.
What is the probability of seeing at least one 5 when throwing a pair of dice?
The number of possible outcomes which have atleast 1–5, is 6+6 (1×6, and 6×1, meaning one dice gets 5 and other dice 6 different numbers and vice versa). The total possible outcomes are 6×6 I.e. 36. So the probability is 12/36.
What is the probability of rolling the sum of two dice?
The combinations for rolling a sum of seven are much greater (1 and 6, 2 and 5, 3 and 4, and so on). To find the probability that the sum of the two dice is three, we can divide the event frequency (2) by the size of the sample space (36), resulting in a probability of 1/18. 3. Two six-sided dice are rolled.
How does the number of dice affect the distribution function?
The higher the number of dice, the closer the distribution function of sums gets to the normal distribution. As you may expect, as the number of dice and faces increases, the more time is consumed evaluating the outcome on a sheet of paper. Luckily, this isn’t the case for our dice probability calculator!
What is the probability of getting any side of the die?
A standard die has six sides printed with little dots numbering 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. If the die is fair (and we will assume that all of them are), then each of these outcomes is equally likely. Since there are six possible outcomes, the probability of obtaining any side of the die is 1/6.
How do you solve a dice problem with two dice?
The easiest way to solve this problem is to consult the table above. You will notice that in each row there is one dice roll where the sum of the two dice is equal to seven. Since there are six rows, there are six possible outcomes where the sum of the two dice is equal to seven.