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An ordinary 6-sided die has a number on each face from 1 to 6 (each number appears on one face). How many ways can I paint two faces of a die red, so that the numbers on the red faces don't add up to 6?

 Jan 7, 2021
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13

Step-by-step explanation:

There are 6 ways to choose the first number and 5 ways to choose the second number to paint so the total number of ways is 6 * 5 = 30 but we are over counting by a factor of 2 since 1 and 6 is the same as 6 and 1 so it's 30/2 = 15, not 30. The only choices that have a product of 6 are 2 and 3 or 1 and 6 so the answer is 15 - 2 = 13.

 Jan 7, 2021

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