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Essentials of Statistics for Business and

Economics (8th Edition) 
Chapter 4, Problem 16E
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Problem
Consider the experiment of rolling a pair of dice. Suppose that we are interested in the sum of the face values
showing on the dice.
a. How many sample points are possible? (Hint: Use the counting rule for multiple-step experiments.)

b. List the sample points.

c. What is the probability of obtaining a value of 7?

d. What is the probability of obtaining a value of 9 or greater?

e. Because each roll has six possible even values (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) and only five possible odd values (3, 5,
7, 9, and 11), the dice should show even values more often than odd values. Do you agree with this statement?
Explain.

f.  What method did you use to assign the probabilities requested?

Step-by-step solution

1. Step 1 of 6
(a)
If an experiment can be described as a sequence of k steps with  possible outcomes on
first step,  possible outcomes on the second step, and so on, then the total number of
experimental outcomes is given by

Therefore, the total possible sample points are = (6) (6) = 36

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2. Step 2 of 6
(b)
The sample points are as follows:

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3. Step 3 of 6
(c)
7 can be obtained in 6 ways:(1,6),(2,5),(3,4),(4,3),2,5),(6,1).

Hence the probability of obtaining a value of 7 = .

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4. Step 4 of 6
(d)
A value of 9 or greater than 9 can be obtained in 10 ways:
(3,6), (4,5), (4,6), (5,4), (5,5), (5,6), (6,3), (6,4), (6,5), (6,6),Probability of obtaining value

of 9 or greater than 9 = .
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5. Step 5 of 6
(e)
No. Probability of each of the points is the same. Hence we can’t simply count the number
of outcomes for even and odd events and conclude.

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6. Step 6 of 6
(f)
Since all the outcomes are equally likely we assign equal probabilities. The method we used
for these equally likely outcomes is classical method.

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