Year: 2003
Paper: 3
Question Number: 14
Course: UFM Statistics
Section: Probability Generating Functions
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Write down the probability generating function for
the score on a standard, fair six-faced die whose faces are labelled
$1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6$. Hence show that the probability
generating function for the sum of the scores on two standard,
fair six-faced dice, rolled independently, can be written as
\[
\frac1{36} t^2 \l 1 + t \r^2 \l 1 - t + t^2 \r^2 \l 1 + t + t^2 \r^2 \;.
\]
Write down, in factorised form, the probability generating functions for
the scores on two fair six-faced dice whose faces are labelled with the
numbers $1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4$ and $1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,$
and hence show that when these dice are rolled independently,
the probability of any given sum of the scores is the same as for the two standard
fair six-faced dice.
Standard, fair four-faced dice are tetrahedra whose faces are labelled $1, 2, 3, 4,$
the score being taken from the face which is not
visible after throwing, and each score being equally likely.
Find all the ways in which two fair four-faced dice can have
their faces labelled with positive integers if the probability
of any given sum of the scores is to be the same as for the two standard
fair four-faced dice.