Probability - Mallory rolls a six-sided die and Rose flips a coin.

Question

Mallory rolls a six-sided die and Rose flips a coin. 

What is the probability of the girls getting tails and an odd number? Use multiplication to get your answer.

Answer 1

There are two events here, and they do not affect each other at all. So we simply need to determine the probability of rolling an odd number and then flipping a coin and getting tails. Then, we need to multiply those probabilities together.

Flipping a Coin and getting tails: 1/2 or 50% because there are only heads and tails options.

Rolling an odd number: 1/2 or 50% because there are 6 numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6) and 3 are odd (1,3,5)

So we have 1/2 and 1/2.

Multiply 1/2 times 1/2 and you get 1/4.