Question
An unbiased six-faced dice whose faces are marked with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 is rolled twice in succession and the number on the top face is recorded each time. The probability that the number appearing in the second roll is an integer multiple of the number appearing in the first roll is __________
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- C
- From
- Official GATE 2026 answer key
Solution
Count all ordered pairs such that divides , and divide by .
Let and be the numbers rolled on the first and second rolls, respectively. There are equally likely ordered outcomes . Counting the pairs where is an integer multiple of :
- : ( pairs)
- : ( pairs)
- : ( pairs)
- : ( pair)
- : ( pair)
- : ( pair)
Total favorable outcomes . Thus the probability is .
Option (C)
Forgetting that every number is a multiple of itself ().
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2026 Computer Science and Information Technology - Session 1 (CS1)
- Question
- 10 of 65
- Section
- General Aptitude
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