Probability with spinners and cube

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You roll a number cube numbered from 1 to 6. YOu then spin a spinner with 5 sections each with a different color. The spinner has the colors red, pink, orange, green and navy.
P(2 and red).

Is the answer? 1out of 6 and 1 out of 5 or is there more to this equation?
 
You roll a number cube numbered from 1 to 6. YOu then spin a spinner with 5 sections each with a different color. The spinner has the colors red, pink, orange, green and navy.
P(2 and red).

Is the answer? 1out of 6 and 1 out of 5 or is there more to this equation?
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It's both and neither. What the question is asking for for the probability of BOTH things happening at once. That probability is the product of the two probabilities you stated.

P(2 and red) = (1/6)(1/5) = 1/30.
 
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