Question

If you roll a number cube 96 times, how many times would you expect to roll a prime number?

Answer 1

We can expect to roll a prime number 48 times.

Theoretically, when you roll a number cube all the possible numbers have the same probability, 1/6.

We know that the numbers in a number cube are {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}

Of these, the primes are: 2, 3, and 5.

So half of the outcomes of a number cube are primes.

This means that, in every single roll, the probability of getting a prime number is 1/2.   (1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 = 3/6 = 1/2)

Then for 96 rolls, we should expect to see in half of these a prime number as an outcome.

This means that we should expect to roll a prime number 96/2 = 48 times.

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Answer 2

You should expect to roll a prime number 64 times.

To determine, if you roll a number cube 96 times, how many times would you expect to roll a prime number, the following calculation must be performed, knowing that the prime numbers are those that can only be divided by 1 or by themselves:  

A cube has 6 sides. Therefore, the numbers in the cube will be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Of these numbers, only 4 and 6 are not prime, since 4 is divisible by 2 and 6 is divisible by 2 and 3.

Therefore, 4/6 numbers are prime, that is, 66.66% of the numbers in the cube.

Therefore, if you roll a number cube 96 times, since 96 x 4/6 equals 64, you should expect to roll a prime number 64 times.

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