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Dice and Valentine's Day Symmetries (Math Chat)

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Visit this site: http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/getasciiarchive?script/97/02/14/021497.feat.scitech.1
Author:Frank Morgan; Christian Science Monitor
Description: A dice challenge from S. H. Logue: The six faces of four dice have these numbers on them: A 1 1 5 5 5 5 B 4 4 4 4 4 4 C 3 3 3 3 7 7 D 2 2 2 6 6 6. You and your opponent each choose one die to use throughout the game. Each round you both roll, and the high number wins. Which is the best die to have?
Levels: Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12)
Languages: English
Resource Types: Problems/Puzzles, Articles
Math Topics: Symmetry/Tessellations, Probability

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