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At one Las Vegas casino, if you net $5 that a 12 will come up as the total points on two dice, and you win, you will get back $50. If any total other than 12 comes up, you get back $0. based on the assumption that the dice are fair, what is the expected payoff for placing this bet?

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Solution. First of all, we calculate the probability that a 12 will come up as the total points on two dice. Note that we roll two dice, there are 36 possible outcomes:

(1,1), (1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (1,5) , (1,6)
(2,1), (2,2), (2,3), (2,4), (2,5) , (2,6)
(3,1), (3,2), (3,3), (3,4), (3,5) , (3,6)
(4,1), (4,2), (4,3), (4,4), (4,5) , (4,6)
(5,1), (5,2), ...

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