123.Three Dice Against a Twenty
★★★classical probabilityJane Street
One player rolls three six-sided dice and totals them; the other rolls a single twenty-sided die. What is the probability that the three-dice total is strictly higher?
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Both have the same mean of 10.5, but very different spreads. Work out the full distribution of the three-dice total and compare.
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