How many times do you have to repeat an event to be likely to get the outcome you want?

For example, if there's a 1 in 36 chance of rolling a double six on two fair dice and you want to be 95% sure of getting that outcome you have to roll the dice 107 times.

But if you only wanted to be 70% sure of getting double six you'd only need to roll the dice 43 times.

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