What is the probability of rolling a 5 on an ordinary fair dice

Question

What is the probability of rolling a 5 on a fair dice

Answer 1

The probability of an event occurring is the number of ways that event can occur divided by the total number of events that can occur.

 

A fair dice has 6 numbers, each with the same chance of being chosen.

There is a single number 5 on a fair dice.

 

Therefore, the change of rolling a 5 is:

(number of 5's) / (total numbers)

 

= 1/6

Answer 2

If the dice is fair and six sided, then the probability of rolling a 5 is 1/6.