2014 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 17
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Three fair six-sided dice are rolled. What is the probability that the values shown on two of the dice sum to the value shown on the remaining die?
Solution 1
First, we note that there are and ways to get sums of respectively--this is not too hard to see. With any specific sum, there is exactly one way to attain it on the other die. This means that the probability that two specific dice have the same sum as the other is Since there are ways to choose which die will be the one with the sum of the other two, our answer is .
Solution 2 (Bashy)
have ways to rearrange them for a total of ways. have ways to rearrange them for a total of ways. Adding them up, we get ways. We have to divide this values by because there are 3 dice. .
~MathFun1000
Solution 3 (Summary of Solution 2)
Start by listing all possible sums. Then find the ways to arrange them and sum them up and divide by for 3 dice. is .
-aopspandy
Solution 4 (enumeration and casework)
There are ways to pick the dice which is the sum. From here proceed with "casework":
- If the sum is 1, there are ways because the minimum sum is .
- If the sum is 2, there is way (namely ).
- If the sum is 3, there are ways (namely and ).
- If the sum is 4, there are ways (namely , , and ).
We start noticing that for a sum of there are cases, but let's keep going to verify.
- If the sum is 5, there are ways (namely , , , and ).
- If the sum is 6, there are ways (namely , , , , and ).
We have exhausted all cases because there is no way a dice can roll a . Summing, there are 15 ways here. To summarize: there are ways to pick the dice that is the sum, and ways to achieve the sum, for a total of configurations. There are total configurations, and the probability is .
~JH. L
Video Solution by OmegaLearn
https://youtu.be/5UojVH4Cqqs?t=702
~ pi_is_3.14
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