When tossing two pair of dice there are 36 possible outcomes.
1,6 - 2,6 - 3,6...
1,5 - 2,5 - 3,5...
1,4 - 2,4 - 3,4 ...
...
1,1
Continue pattern for all possibilities.
However getting a sum of 2 is only possible when each dice rolled is a 1. This only oocurs one time in all of the possibilities.
The probability of rolling a total of 2 with 2 dice is `1/36.`
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