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For this problem, you are to cannibalize any available code and write a pair of scripts which will do the following.

1. The HTML Page: nsideddicerolls.html
   • Ask the user for the number of sides for the dice
   • Ask the user for the number of rolls of two such dice
   • Accept input in a form
   • Pass a hidden value for the maximum number of sides and one for the maximum number of rolls
   • Using the "Roll" button, send the data to a PHP script called nsideddicetable.php
2. The PHP Script: nsideddicetable.php
   1. Check the data received to ensure that the value is possible; use die or exit to report problems and terminate execution
   2. Tell the user how many rolls were requested
   3. Simulate the rolling of the dice using the rand function (see also Generating Random Values), storing the values in a pair of arrays
   4. Calculate the sum of each roll of the pair of dice, storing the results in an array
   5. Calculate the means for the rolls of each die and for the sums of each pair
   6. Print a table which specifies six things:
      1. Labels for the columns
      2. The number of the roll in the first column
      3. The first die in the second column
      4. The second die in the third column
      5. The sum of the dice in the fourth column
      6. The means of the second, third, and fourth columns in the last row

To see how this should work, view this possible solution.

Notes

• Some browsers are pickier in their insistence that HTML code adhere to the language's syntax rules. Failure to terminate a table with the </table> tag may result in nothing being displayed.