Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often 8,9 or 10?
a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10

• to get the sum of 8 we have 5 chances
  die 1 die 2
  2 6
  3 5
  4 4
  5 3
  6 2
  to get the sum 9 we have 4 chances
  die 1 die 2
  3 6
  4 5
  5 4
  6 3
  to get the sum of ten we have 3 chances
  die 1 die 2
  4 6
  5 5
  6 4
  so 8 has max chances so 8 is the answer
• 14 years agoHelpfull: Yes(28) No(1)
• in a series of events the probability of the most likely to be happend is the median.
  here the median is (12+2)/2=7
  now for those given numbers the maximum probability of occurring will b the nearest to this median.
  thus 8 is the nearest 1.. so the ans is 8 :)
• 14 years agoHelpfull: Yes(12) No(0)
• ans:)8
  we get 8 from the following combinations-(2,6),(3,5),(4,4),(5,3),(6,2) i.e.5 times
  we get 9 from-(3,6),(4,5),(5,4),(6,3) i.e.4 times
  we get 10 from-(5,5),(6,4),(4,6) i.e-3 times.
• 14 years agoHelpfull: Yes(7) No(0)
• there is too much unnecessary,skip all of them ,now come to last 2 lines
  in two throw of dice appearance of 8=(6,2),(5,3),(4,4),(3,5),(2,6)=5;
  9=(6,3),(4,5),(5,4),(3,6)=4
  10=(4,6),(5,5),(6,4)=3
  so definitely answer is 8 as it appears max no of times
• 14 years agoHelpfull: Yes(7) No(0)
• Here the card resembles a dice. So its like throwing 2 dice. Always the number closer to half of max(in this case 12) will have higher probability. So 8 is more closer to 6. 8 is the ans.
• 14 years agoHelpfull: Yes(4) No(0)