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A fair die is rolled 5 times. What is the probability of having no 1 and no 5 among the rolls? Round your answer to three decimal places.

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Feb 25,2025

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The probability of not rolling a 1 or 5 in 5 rolls is approximately 0.132.

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For each roll, we need to avoid the numbers 1 and 5. This leaves us with the outcomes 2, 3, 4, and 6, which means there are 4 favorable outcomes per roll. The probability for one roll is:   4 favorable outcomes / 6 total outcomes = 4/6 = 2/3. Since the rolls are independent, the probability of avoiding 1 and 5 in all 5 rolls is:   (2/3)^5 = 32/243 ≈ 0.132. Thus, the probability that no roll results in a 1 or a 5 is approximately 0.132.

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To find the probability of rolling no 1s and no 5s when rolling a fair die 5 times, we first determine the possible outcomes for a single roll. Since we're avoiding 1s and 5s, we only have the numbers 2, 3, 4, and 6 available — that's 4 possible outcomes. The total number of outcomes for one roll of a die is 6. Therefore, the probability of rolling either a 1 or a 5 is: \[ P(\text{1 or 5}) = \frac{2}{6} = \frac{1}{3} \] Thus, the probability of not rolling a 1 or a 5 (rolling a 2, 3, 4, or 6) in a single roll is: \[ P(\text{not 1 and not 5}) = 1 - P(\text{1 or 5}) = 1 - \frac{1}{3} = \frac{2}{3} \] Next, since the die is rolled 5 times, we raise the probability of a single successful outcome to the power of the number of rolls: \[ P(\text{no 1s and no 5s in 5 rolls}) = \left(\frac{2}{3}\right)^5 \] Calculating this gives: \[ P = \left(\frac{2}{3}\right)^5 = \frac{32}{243} \] To find this probability as a decimal, we calculate: \[ \frac{32}{243} \approx 0.131687 \] Rounding this to three decimal places, we get: **0.132**

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