{"id":21739,"date":"2026-05-25T22:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/probability-of-rolling-a-number-less-than-3-on-a-number-cube-a-fair-number-cube-has-faces-numbered-1-to-6-probability-of-rolling-a-number-less-th\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:57:24","slug":"probability-of-rolling-a-number-less-than-3-on-a-number-cube-a-fair-number-cube-has-faces-numbered-1-to-6-probability-of-rolling-a-number-less-th","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/probability-of-rolling-a-number-less-than-3-on-a-number-cube-a-fair-number-cube-has-faces-numbered-1-to-6-probability-of-rolling-a-number-less-th\/","title":{"rendered":"Probability of rolling a number less than 3 on a number cube: A fair number cube has faces numbered 1 to 6. Probability of rolling a number less th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A fair number cube has faces numbered 1 to 6. What is the probability of rolling a number less than 3?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Possible outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6<\/li><li>Use the meaning of the event to test each option.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose the best answer.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\"><li>1\/3<\/li><li>2\/3<\/li><li>33.3%<\/li><li>2\/5<\/li><li>3\/6<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2911,2910],"subject":[2748],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-21739","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-equally-likely-outcomes","topic-number-cube-probability","subject-probability-statistics","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"<p>Use the key probability or statistics idea first, then check the arithmetic carefully.<\/p><ul><li>A fair number cube has 6 equally likely outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.<\/li><li>The outcomes that match the event are 1, 2, so there are 2 favorable outcomes.<\/li><li>Therefore, the probability is 2\/6 = 1\/3.<\/li><\/ul><p>The correct answer is 1\/3. This matches the calculation or definition, so students should focus on the reasoning rather than only memorizing the final value.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"yes","answer":"1\/3"},{"right":"no","answer":"2\/3"},{"right":"no","answer":"33.3%"},{"right":"no","answer":"2\/5"},{"right":"no","answer":"3\/6"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2748,"title":"Probability &amp; Statistics","slug":"probability-statistics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2911,"title":"Equally Likely Outcomes","slug":"equally-likely-outcomes"},{"id":2910,"title":"Number Cube Probability","slug":"number-cube-probability"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/21739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21739"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21739"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}