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In solving problems like this, the most straightforward approach is to make a table. Columns are used to show the six outcomes from one of the dice, rows the outcomes from the other die. In each cell of the table put the sum of the two dice. Now go throught the table row by row, counting the values that are prime numbers. There are 36 cells in the table, and I counted 15 primes, making a probability of 15/36 = 5/9.

But my counting has been wrong before! You had better check it.

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