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So in this question we have die a, which gets a, it can either be a 4 with probability 4 over 6 or two thirds, or it can be 0 with probability one third.
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For b, b can be, b can only be 3, so it's b, it's 3 with probability 1.
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For c, c can be 6 with probability a third, or it can be 2 with probability two thirds.
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And d can be 5 with probability a half, or 1 with probability a half.
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So first of all, what's the probability that a is greater than b? well since b is always 3, if a is 0 it's less than b, and if it's 4 it's greater than b.
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So this is just the probability a equals 4, which is two thirds.
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Part b, what's the probability that b is greater than c? well if c is 6, then b is not greater than c, but if c is 2, then b is definitely greater than c.
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So this is the probability that c equals 2, which is two thirds.
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Part c, what's the probability that c is greater than d? well this is the probability that c is 6.
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So if c is 6, it's definitely greater than d.
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Or if c equals 2 and d is equal to 1, then it's also going to be greater than d.
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So the probability c equals 6 is a third, and because they're independent, the probability c is 2 and d is 1, we just multiply them together.
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So two thirds times a half.
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So that's a third plus a third, which is two thirds.
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Part d, what's the probability that d is greater than a? well if d is 5, then it's definitely greater than a, and if d is 1, it's greater than a only if a is 0.
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So this gives us a half plus a half times a third.
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So that is a half plus a sixth, which is two thirds.
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Part e, is a greater than b independent of b greater than c? well the probability that a is greater than b and b is greater than c is, so let's look at a greater than b, well that's just the event that a equals 4.
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And the probability that b is greater than c is just the event that c is equal to 2.
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But because a and c are independent, this is the probability a equals 4 times the probability c equals 2.
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But those are exactly the events a greater than b and b greater than c...