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You're playing a variant of the board game Risk with your friends. In this variant, the attacker gets to roll two 7-sided dice and the defender rolls a single 8-sided die. The attacker wins if at least one of their dice is strictly higher than the defender's. Find the probability that the attacker wins.
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Step 1) Total number of ways to roll the dice = 7 * 7 * 8 = 392
Step 2) Calculate the probability the defender wins in each case, and use the complement later to find the probability the attacker wins. Note that the game has no ties.
Case 1) Defender rolls 1:
Defender wins if the attacker rolls
(1, 1)
Case 2) Defender rolls 2:
Defender wins if attacker rolls
(1, 1), (1, 2)
(2, 1), (2, 2)
Case 3) Defender rolls 3:
defender wins if attacker rolls
(1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3)
(2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3)
(3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3)
Case 4) Defender rolls 4:
defender wins if attacker rolls
(1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4)
(2, 1), (2, 2), ...
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