When we throw three dice, which one is more likely: that the sum of the three outcomes

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When we throw three dice, which one is more likely: that the sum of the three outcomes equals 10 or that it equals 9?

(This problem is historically associated with the name of Galileo Galilei

(1564–1642), who calculated the probabilities of both these events and showed that they were not equal, as it was thought to be so at that time.)

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Introduction To Probability Volume 2

ISBN: 9781118123331

1st Edition

Authors: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Markos V. Koutras, Konstadinos G. Politis

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