Rapid-Fire Probability Questions
Context
Answer the following independent probability questions. Assume fair dice/coin and a standard 52-card deck. Show formulas or brief reasoning.
Questions
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Two fair six-sided dice are rolled. What is the probability distribution of the sum?
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From a well-shuffled standard 52-card deck, after discarding the top 10 cards unseen, what is the probability that the next card is red?
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When rolling two fair dice, what is the probability that the sum is 11 or 12?
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In a fair-coin gambler’s-ruin process, starting with bankroll 10 and goal 20 (absorbing barriers at 0 and 20, betting 1 each round), what is the probability of reaching 20 before 0?
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If a fair six-sided die is rolled N times, what is the expected number of occurrences of each face and the variance of that count?
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If four fair six-sided dice are rolled, what is the probability that the product of the outcomes is odd?