AMC 12 Mock Exam 2 Problem 13
Problem 13 of 25
Maya rolls three fair standard six-sided dice. What is the probability that one of the three numbers she rolls is equal to the sum of the other two?
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If one number equals the sum of the other two, it is strictly larger than each of them, so it is the unique largest number; call it , where . For each , the largest die can be any of the dice, and the other two dice show an ordered pair of positive integers with sum , of which there are . Thus the number of favorable outcomes is and the probability is .
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