Michele is rolling two six- sided dice, numbered one through six. What is the probability that the sum of her rolls is 6?

Answer 1

Possible rolls with sums of 6 are (1,5); (2,4); (3,3); (4,2); (5,1).

Place these 5 possible results of 6 over the total number of possible outcomes for rolling 2 fair 6-sided dice to obtain 5/(6×6) or 5/36 equal to 0.1388888888889 or 13.8888888889% Probability.

Answer 2

There are 6x6 or 36 possible outcomes

Need to see how many ways we can get a total of 6

That would be 1+5,5+1,2+4, 4+2 and 3+3

So there are 5 different ways to get a 6

The probability is then 5/36