Each of five, standard, six-sided dice is rolled once. Two of the dice come up the same, but the other three are all different from those two and different from each other. The pair is set aside, and the other three dice are re-rolled. The dice are said to show a "full house" if three of the dice show the same value and the other two show the same value (and potentially, but not necessarily, all five dice show the same value). What is the probability that after the second set of rolls, the dice show a full house?
You can choose the two paired dice in (5C2) ways, the value of the pair in 6 ways and the non-paired dice in 5*4*3 ways, giving us this:
5C2*6*5*4*3 / 6^5 =25/54
Now we roll the three odd dice to obtain a three of a kind of any value.
First die - any number 6/6
2nd die - 1/6 prob. of matching the first
3rd die - 1/6 prob. of matching the first two:
P =6/6 * 1/6 * 1/6 =1/36
Now will multiply these together to get the final probability: 25/54 * 1/36 =25/1944=0.01286
Those answers are incorrect. Here is the correct one:
We divide this into cases, the 3 are the same, one is the same as the original and the last 2 are the same, and they are all the same.
Case 1: 5 ways
Case 2: 3*5=15 ways
Case 3: 1 way
Total: 21 ways
total without restrictions:6^3
So probability is 21/216=7/72.
