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Two dice are thrown then the probability of the sum of numbers appearing to be prime is :

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✅ Correct Option: 1

Prime sums are 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11, occurring in 1, 2, 4, 6 and 2 ways respectively. That is 15 favourable outcomes out of 36, so the probability is 1536\frac{15}{36}.

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