Question

The table below shows the possible outcomes of rolling a six-sided number cube and flipping a coin. What is the probability of getting a number less than 3 and a tails?

Answer 1

Answer: the probability of getting a number less than 3 and tails is P 1/6

Step-by-step explanation:

Assuming that the dice and the coin are normal ones, we can expect that the probability for each outcome is about the same.

For the coin we have 2 outcomes, heads and tails, then each outcome has a probability of 1/2

The dice has 6 outcomes, and each outcome has a probability of 1/6.

Then the probability of rolling a number less than 3 is equal to the probability of rolling a 1 plus the probability of rolling a 2.

P1 + P2 = 1/6 + 1/6 = 2/6 = 1/3.

The probability of getting tails with the coin is 1/2.

Now, the joint for both events is equal to the product of the probabilities of each event, this is:

P = (1/3)*(1/2) = 1/6