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CEMC Gauss (Grade 8), 2001

Combinatorics Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer Canada

A fair die is constructed by labelling the faces of a wooden cube with the numbers 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, and 3. If this die is rolled once, the probability of rolling an odd number is

(A) 56\dfrac{5}{6} (B) 46\dfrac{4}{6} (C) 36\dfrac{3}{6} (D) 26\dfrac{2}{6} (E) 16\dfrac{1}{6}

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