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Solve the following: Consider independent trails consisting of rolling a pair of fair dice, over and over What is the probability that a sum of 5 appears before sum of 7? - Mathematics and Statistics

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Solve the following:

Consider independent trails consisting of rolling a pair of fair dice, over and over What is the probability that a sum of 5 appears before sum of 7?

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When two dice are thrown, the sample space is

S = {(1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4), (1, 5), (1, 6), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6), (3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3), (3, 4), (3, 5), (3, 6), (4, 1), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), (5, 1), (5, 2), (5, 3), (5, 4), (5, 5), (5, 6), (6, 1), (6, 2), (6, 3), (6, 4), (6, 5), (6, 6)}

∴ n(S) = 36

Let event A: The sum is 5 in a trial.

A = {(2, 3), (3, 2), (1, 4), (4, 1)}

∴ P(A) = `4/36 = 1/9`

Let event B: The sum is 7 in a trial.

B = {(2, 5), (5, 2), (3, 4), (4, 3), (1, 6), (6, 1)}

∴  P(B) = `6/36 = 1/6`

Let event C: Neither sum is 5 nor 7.

P(C) = 1 – P(A) – P(B)

= `1 - 1/9 - 1/6`

= `26/36`

Let the sum of 5 appear in nth trial for the first time and the sum of 7 has not occurred in first (n – 1) trials.

Probability of this event = [P(C)]n–1 P(A)

Required probability = `sum_("n" = 1)^oo (26/36)^("n" - 1) (1/9)`

= `1/9(1/(1 - 26/36))`

= `1/9(18/5)`

= `2/5`.

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