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Snake Eyes SnakeEyes

A roll of two 1s (the lowest roll possible) on a pair of six-sided dice. The probability of rolling snake eyes is 1/36, or 2.777...%.

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References

Mosteller, F. Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions. New York: Dover, p. 3, 1987.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Snake Eyes." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SnakeEyes.html

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