 Solution

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Use the ordered outcomes of the two rolls as the sample space:

Ω = {1, \dots, 6}^{2}, F = 2^{Ω}, P (E) = \frac{∣ E ∣}{36} (E \subseteq Ω) .

1/36

. This is the usual probability space for two independent fair dice.

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