Question

two dice are thrown at the same and the product of numbers appearing on them is noted. find the probabity that the product is a prime number

Answer 1

Total number of possible outcomes = 36

Total number of favourable outcomes = 6
(1,2) (1,3) (1,5) (2,1) (3,1) (5,1)

Let, E be the event getting the product is prime number.

P(E) = 6/36 = 1/6