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Answer:

Yes. For example, a solitaire player who has just lost a game might want to play the game again with the same shuffle of the deck to see if he can win with a better strategy.


nextInt()

Here are two methods (out of several) that Random objects provide. The second method is the one most often used.

num must be a positive integer. The random integers are selected from the range 0 up to and including num-1 but not including num.


int nextInt() — Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int value.
All possible int values, both positive and negative, are in the range of values returned.
int nextInt( int num ) — Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed int
value between 0 (inclusive) and num (exclusive).

QUESTION 5:

Say that you want pseudorandom numbers selected from the range 1 through 6.

How can nextInt( int num ) be used for that?