In throwing a pair of dice, find the probability of getting an odd number on the first die and a total of 7 on both the sides.
We first find the total number of elements in the sample space. We will then find the number
of favorable outcomes.
Since the events are equally-likely, we can write the probability as Number of favorable outcomestotal number of outcomes
When we throw a pair of dice, there are a total of 36 outcomes. [(1,1),(1,2).....(5,6)....(6,1)....(6,6)]
We want only those outcomes in which the sum of numbers is 7 and the first number is an odd
number.
The favorable outcomes are (1,6),(3,4) and (5,2).
So the number of favorable outcomes =3
⇒ Probability=336
=112