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Four people each roll a fair die once.

 Quantity A Quantity B The probability that at least two people will roll the same number 70%

A) Quantity A is greater.
B) Quantity B is greater.
C) The two quantities are equal.
D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
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Re: Four people each roll a fair die once. [#permalink]  20 Aug 2017, 06:35
How plz explain
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Re: Four people each roll a fair die once. [#permalink]  21 Aug 2017, 05:32
Pls explain the answer. I think most of the people chose the answer B.
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Re: Four people each roll a fair die once. [#permalink]  21 Aug 2017, 06:07
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When a question like this is really fuzzy and you do not know from where.....think smart.

Now, we do know that in the first blank the question is

The probability that at least two people will roll the same number.

From this problem is well-suited to the "1 - x” shortcut. You can calculate the probability of each of the four rolls resulting in a different number each time. In this scenario is way much easier to calculate the probability that you DO NO want and NOT those you wanna. Do not attack the problem up-front, but using the other way around.

The first roll is assigned a probability of l, since the first number that comes up will not be the same as that of any previous roll (because there has been no previous roll). In the next roll, the first number that came up must be excluded, so that there are 5 allowable outcomes. Likewise, the third roll will have 4 allowable outcomes, and the fourth roll will have 3 allowable outcomes. The overall proba­bility of all four numbers being distinct is therefore equal to

$$1 * \frac{5}{6} * \frac{4}{6} * \frac{3}{6}= 1 - \frac{5}{18} = \frac{13}{18}$$ = 0.72

A is the answer
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Re: Four people each roll a fair die once. [#permalink]  21 Aug 2017, 09:12
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When a question like this is really fuzzy and you do not know from where.....think smart.

Now, we do know that in the first blank the question is

The probability that at least two people will roll the same number.

From this problem is well-suited to the "1 - x” shortcut. You can calculate the probability of each of the four rolls resulting in a different number each time. In this scenario is way much easier to calculate the probability that you DO NO want and NOT those you wanna. Do not attack the problem up-front, but using the other way around.

The first roll is assigned a probability of l, since the first number that comes up will not be the same as that of any previous roll (because there has been no previous roll). In the next roll, the first number that came up must be excluded, so that there are 5 allowable outcomes. Likewise, the third roll will have 4 allowable outcomes, and the fourth roll will have 3 allowable outcomes. The overall proba­bility of all four numbers being distinct is therefore equal to

$$1 * \frac{5}{6} * \frac{4}{6} * \frac{3}{6}= 1 - \frac{5}{18} = \frac{13}{18}$$ = 0.72

A is the answer

Thank you very much
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Re: Four people each roll a fair die once. [#permalink]  13 Nov 2018, 19:15
Carcass wrote:
When a question like this is really fuzzy and you do not know from where.....think smart.

Now, we do know that in the first blank the question is

The probability that at least two people will roll the same number.

From this problem is well-suited to the "1 - x” shortcut. You can calculate the probability of each of the four rolls resulting in a different number each time. In this scenario is way much easier to calculate the probability that you DO NO want and NOT those you wanna. Do not attack the problem up-front, but using the other way around.

The first roll is assigned a probability of l, since the first number that comes up will not be the same as that of any previous roll (because there has been no previous roll). In the next roll, the first number that came up must be excluded, so that there are 5 allowable outcomes. Likewise, the third roll will have 4 allowable outcomes, and the fourth roll will have 3 allowable outcomes. The overall proba­bility of all four numbers being distinct is therefore equal to

$$1 * \frac{5}{6} * \frac{4}{6} * \frac{3}{6}$$ $$= 1 - \frac{5}{18} = \frac{13}{18} = 0.72$$

A is the answer

What do you mean by "$$=" in the last line? I am confused. Moderator Joined: 18 Apr 2015 Posts: 5122 Followers: 76 Kudos [?]: 1022 [0], given: 4624 Re: Four people each roll a fair die once. [#permalink] 15 Nov 2018, 12:36 Expert's post Is the Latex code that sometimes does not show properly Actually is this \(1 * \frac{5}{6} * \frac{4}{6} * \frac{3}{6}= 1 - \frac{5}{18} = \frac{13}{18}$$ = 0.72

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Re: Four people each roll a fair die once. [#permalink]  15 Nov 2018, 12:56
Carcass wrote:
When a question like this is really fuzzy and you do not know from where.....think smart.

Now, we do know that in the first blank the question is

The probability that at least two people will roll the same number.

From this problem is well-suited to the "1 - x” shortcut. You can calculate the probability of each of the four rolls resulting in a different number each time. In this scenario is way much easier to calculate the probability that you DO NO want and NOT those you wanna. Do not attack the problem up-front, but using the other way around.

The first roll is assigned a probability of l, since the first number that comes up will not be the same as that of any previous roll (because there has been no previous roll). In the next roll, the first number that came up must be excluded, so that there are 5 allowable outcomes. Likewise, the third roll will have 4 allowable outcomes, and the fourth roll will have 3 allowable outcomes. The overall proba­bility of all four numbers being distinct is therefore equal to

$$1 * \frac{5}{6} * \frac{4}{6} * \frac{3}{6}= 1 - \frac{5}{18} = \frac{13}{18}$$ = 0.72

A is the answer

Thank you very much for your detailed answer?

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Re: Four people each roll a fair die once. [#permalink]  15 Nov 2018, 13:06
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Re: Four people each roll a fair die once. [#permalink]  25 Nov 2018, 14:20
Answer: B
Four people each roll a fair die once.

A. The probability that at least two people will roll the same number
B. 70%

When it says at least two people it means two, three or four people out of four.
We know that P(x>=2) = P(2) + P(3) + P(4)

P(a) = a people roll the same number

We know P(x) = 1 - P(x’)
P(x>=2) = 1 - P(1)

P(1) = a person roll the same number or/ nobody will roll the same number, it means if the first one roll 1, second can roll between 2 and 6 and will have 5 choices not 6, the third person will have 4 choices and so on.

P(1) = 6/6 * 5/6* 4/6 * 3/6 = 5/6* 1/3 = 5/18
P(x>=2) = 1 - P(1) = 1 - 5/18 = 13/18 = 72% which is more than B
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