Re: probability and unfair dice

From: The World Wide Wade (waderameyxiii_at_comcast.remove13.net)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:21:10 -0700

In article <8cb846f1.0410151541.613d7c49@posting.google.com>,
 adoug48@comcast.net (adh) wrote:

> I have three different dice. The first one is the usual,
> P(dice1)=1/6.
> The other two are unfaair and for each P(dice2) & P(dice3)=1/3.
> Suppose one
> of the dice is randomly selected and I roll it and a "one" appeared
> .What's the probability that it's the first die chosen? This unfair or
> weighted dice
> problem is uncharted territory.

It certainly is uncharted, because it makes no sense as stated.

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