Question

a wooden cube has 6 sides. The sides are labeled A, B, C, D, E, and F. What is the probability of rolling a B? Write your answer as a fraction.​

Answer 1

1/6

Explanation:

You have six choices and you want to pick only 1 of those choices.

1/6

Answer 2

`\displaystyle(1)/(6)`

Explanation:

Probability explains the likelihood of an event occurring. The outcome you are finding the probability for is the successful outcome. The sample size is the total number of possible outcomes.

Simple Probability

Simple probability is when there is only one single event. In this situation, the cube is only being rolled once, so it's a simple probability question. To solve this question as a fraction, the numerator should be the number of successful outcomes and the denominator should be the sample size.

Solving for P(B)

Since there are 6 sides with 6 letters, the sample size is 6. So, 6 should be the denominator. We are finding the probability of "B", which means there is 1 successful outcome. Thus, the numerator should be 1.

This means as a fraction the probability is
`(1)/(6)`.