Suppose we throw a die once. (i) What is the probability of getting a number greater than 4?

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asked Feb 9, 2018 in Mathematics by Kundan kumar (49,132 points) 34 380 1014

Suppose we throw a die once. (i) What is the probability of getting a number greater than 4?
(ii) What is the probability of getting a number less than or equal to 4?

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answered Feb 9, 2018 by Vikash Kumar (144,729 points) 8 11 21
 
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(i) Here, let E be the event 'getting a number greater than 4. The number of possible outcomes are six: 1, 2, 3,4, 5 and 6, and the outcomes favorable to E are 5 and 6. Therefore, the number of outcomes favorable to E is 2. So,

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