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100-sided die probability
The question is as follows: You are given a 100-sided die. After you roll once, you can choose to either get paid the dollar amount of that roll OR pay one dollar for one more roll. What is the ...
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Tower of dice - Abstracting a practical problem to a mathematical method
This question arose when playing yahtzee with some friends. Not entirely sure if I'm in the right area, but hope you can help.
How many dice do you need to create a tower whose walls have the same ...
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“8 Dice arranged as a Cube” Face-Sum Problem
I found this here:
Sum Problem
Given eight dice. Build a $2\times 2\times2$ cube, so that the sum of the points on each side is the same.
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“8 Dice arranged as a Cube” Face-Sum Equals 14 Problem
I found this here:
Sum Problem
Given eight dice. Build a $2\times 2\times2$ cube, so that the sum of the points on each side is the same.
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Here is one of 20 736 ...
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Expected Value of the Difference between 2 Dice
What is the expected value of the absolute difference between 2 N
faced dice? What about the difference between 2 dice one with N faces
and one with M faces?
While finding the expected value ...
