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A pair of dice is thrown 4 times. If getting a doublet is considered a success, find the probability of two successes.



Answer -

We know that therepeated tosses of a pair of dice are known as Bernoulli trials.

Let the number oftimes of getting doublets in an experiment of throwing two dice simultaneouslyfour times be x.

Thus, q = 1 – p = 1 –1/6 = 5/6

Now, here x has abinomial distribution, where n = 4, p = 1/6, q = 5/6

Thus, P(X = x) = nCqn-x px,where x = 0, 1, 2, … n

4Cx (5/6)4-x (1/6)x

4Cx (54-x/66)

Hence, Probability ofgetting 2 successes = P(X = 2)

4C(54-2/64)

= 6 (52/64)

= 6 × (25/1296)

= 25/216

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