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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) $\dfrac{5}{6}$ (B) $\dfrac{4}{6}$ (C) $\dfrac{3}{6}$ (D) $\dfrac{2}{6}$ (E) $\dfrac{1}{6}$

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