The Complement Rule

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Hook

Sometimes it's easier to count the losers

What's the chance of rolling at least one six in four rolls of a die? Listing every winning combination is a nightmare. But the chance of rolling NO sixes is easy — and the answer you want is just one minus that. Meet the most useful shortcut in probability.

Either an event happens or it doesn't. Those two chances must add up to 1.

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