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Here's a boring, unshmoopy question you'll find on an exam somewhere in life.

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What is the probability of rolling a four and then rolling an even number on a fair-numbered die?

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And here are the potential answers...

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It's a vanilla two-step dance in Probabilityland.

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There are 6 sides to a die.

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As long as you're not engaged in a role-playing game in your parents' basement.

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Rolling any one number carries a 1 in 6 chance.

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Then we roll a second time and, since there

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are 3 even numbers out of six...

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...our odds are 3 out of 6 or 1 out of 2 on that second die...

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... or 50-50 in gambler lingo.

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To get the total odds of both things happening,

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we just multiply them -- and we get: 1/6 times 1/2 which is one-twelfth...

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and the answer is B.

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In gambler lingo, we're guessing that would be 50... 600?

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Doesn't have quite the same ring to it as that 50-50 thing...

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