Jeremy is going to roll a fair 6-sided dice 180 times. What is the best prediction for the number of times that Jeremy will roll a number greater than 4?

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Jonathan Lamb

Mathematics

30 July, 17:01

Jeremy is going to roll a fair 6-sided dice 180 times. What is the best prediction for the number of times that Jeremy will roll a number greater than 4?

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Shiner · Answer 1

We can first find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4 which is 2/6. This can simplify to 1/3. We then want to multiply this probability by the number of times Jeremy is actually rolling the dice:

(1/3) (180) = 60

He will probably roll a number greater than four 60 times.