>>7617930I have a homework assignments with two questions which appear to be the same except for one difference. And before you ask, it's a probability class in Computer Science, not middle or high school.
A die gets thrown twice, what is the probability that the sum of the numbers is 3 or less?
Two dice get thrown once, what is the probability that the sum of the numbers is 3 or less?
I don't really understand how the questions are different. Logically, the result is the same. It literally doesn't make a difference whether i throw one die twice, or two dice once.
So I would say we count the amount of possible events, that is 36 combinations of numbers: (1,1), (1,2) etc etc
and then i count the ones that equal 3 or less and divide that by 36.
But the fact that those are two separate assignments makes me think this answer isn't correct for both assignements.
