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To: DuncanWaring

Only six outcomes have one five? I think you're way off on that one.

5 1 1 1 1 1
5 1 1 1 1 2
5 1 1 1 1 3
5 1 1 1 1 4...

think you see where this is going.

22 posted on 05/07/2015 7:46:12 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)

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To: Teacher317

That must be why you’re the teacher and I’m not.

27 posted on 05/07/2015 7:53:14 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

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To: Teacher317

Sorry, Teach, you fail. If you're going to make a list of the serial OUTCOMES of a series of rolls, a 5 may occur as the outcome of any roll. SERIAL OUTCOMES with exactly one 5 in 6 rolls would be:

5 N N N N N
N 5 N N N N
N N 5 N N N
N N N 5 N N
N N N N 5 N
N N N N N 5

where N is some non-5 outcome of a roll...thus... ...exactly 6 such serial outcomes. Your list confuses permutations with combinations, ok?

33 posted on 05/07/2015 7:59:08 AM PDT by SAJ

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