Yee Kostyla
Yee Kostyla voted up Walt O'Reagun's answer
How do you solve a probability? There's a problem and I'm really confused. Tried looking up how but didn't really answer my questions. An 8 sided die was rolled. What's the probability of rolling a 1 and then a 5? 1:14 times 5:21 times.

The odds of rolling any single number on a single roll of an 8-sided die is 1/8

The odds of rolling any combination of specific numbers for multiple rolls is 1/8 * (1/8 for each roll).

So the odds of rolling a 1 followed by a 5 based on two rolls is ... 1/8 * 1/8 … Read more

Yee Kostyla
Yee Kostyla voted up Walt O'Reagun's answer
How do you solve a probability? There's a problem and I'm really confused. Tried looking up how but didn't really answer my questions. An 8 sided die was rolled. What's the probability of rolling a 1 and then a 5? 1:14 times 5:21 times.

The odds of rolling any single number on a single roll of an 8-sided die is 1/8

The odds of rolling any combination of specific numbers for multiple rolls is 1/8 * (1/8 for each roll).

So the odds of rolling a 1 followed by a 5 based on two rolls is ... 1/8 * 1/8 … Read more

Yee Kostyla
Yee Kostyla voted up Rooster Cogburn's answer
Aren't games, especially lengthy and especially extended or complex ones, for people to learn about and bond with each other? What do you do when people you don't know or won't be bonding with through any institution, merger, family marriage or job, insist on trying to play lengthy and involved games with you and get as much information from you as possible?

Geez ! Not that I know of ! I play long hard online PC games with people from all over the world and we just see who the better strategist is. All the rest, I've never come across. We bond when we play each other is about it.