Answer:
26/36
Step-by-step explanation:
The probability of something = the amount of favourable outcomes/total possible outcomes.
The total number of dice combinations is 36 (6x6).
In this case there are more outcomes more than 5 than less than 5 so for the sake of simplicity we are going to find the number of outcomes less than 5 and then find the inverse.
There are only 10 possible dice combos which add to totals 5 or under:
1,1 1,2 2,1 1,3 3,1 1,4 4,1 2,2 2,3 and 3,2
That means there is a 10/36 probability of getting a total score less than 5 so to get the probability of getting more than 5, we just do 36/36 - 10/36 (because all probabilities add to 1)
Therefore there is a 26/36 probability that the toatals will add to greater than 5.
Alternatively you could also draw up a possibilities table and count the favourable outcomes.
Hope this helped!
