Step 8 – what are the chances?
We know that it's much more likely that you'll get a 6, 7, or 8 when rolling two six sided dice. There's a 16/36 chance – nearly 50%.
But can we test this?
Computers are really good at doing jobs like this really quickly. We can get Python to generate 100 rolls of 2d6. Or 1000. Or 10000.
- Start a new Python program
- Use the code in the screenshot
- Watch the idents and brackets
- Save your program
- Run the program to check that it works
- Run your program a few times
- Change the number of dice rolls – this means changing the (0, 100) to be (o, 1000) etc...
You can check how well you matched the probabilities here:
Dice probabilities (opens in a new tab)