To: MNDude
Six rolls of a die have 6
6 (46656) possibilities.
Six of those total outcomes contain exactly one "five".
If you're looking for the odds of getting exactly one "five" in six rolls of a die, that would be 6/46656, or .0001286 (to the best of my recollection).
21 posted on
05/07/2015 7:43:58 AM PDT by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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)
To: DuncanWaring
It’s called a Bernoulli trial.
If you look on wikipedia,
the probability of success is 1/6 and the number of trials is 6.
perhaps you can understand other variations by looking at the article.
47 posted on
05/07/2015 8:33:04 AM PDT by
menotomy
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