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7-9.

Desmond is rolling a standard six-sided number cube. He plans to roll it times.  

  1. About how many times would you expect Desmond to roll a ? Why?

    You would expect Desmond to roll a about one sixth of the total rolls, , since there are numbers on a cube. What is one sixth of ?

  2. About how many times would you expect him to roll an even number? Why?

    See part (a).

    There are three even numbers on a cube.

  1. Desmond kept track of his results for all rolls. The table at right shows some of his results. Based on his partial results, how many times did he roll a or a ?

    What is the total Number of Outcomes in the table on the right? How many more times did Desmond roll the cube?

Result

Number of Outcomes

1

9

2

14

3

11

4

8

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