When rolling two standard six-sided dice simultaneously, what numerical sum of the top faces has the highest probability of occurring?
7
There are 6 combinations to roll a sum of 7 ((1,6), (2,5), (3,4), (4,3), (5,2), (6,1)), which is more than any other sum.
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