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determine the probability of rolling a total of 8 given 3 fair dice.
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the probability of rolling a total of 8 given 3 fair dice is 1/12 or 0.083. this is because the possible combinations that add up to 8 include (5,1,2), (4,2,2), (3,3,2), (2,4,2) and (1,5,2). since there are a total of 6x6x6=216 possible combinations, the probability of rolling a total of 8 is 1/216.
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