Finding the median

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I have a following problem to solve: Let X be a random variable equal to a greater dice number when throwing two symmetric dices with values from 1 to 6. What is the median of X? I'm not quite sure if I understand the exercise correctly. I know that number 2 can occur two times (when throwing 1 and 2 or 2 and 1), number 3 can occur four times(1-3, 2-3, 3-2, 3-1) etc. but I don't know what to do with cases 1-1, 2-2, etc. Am I supposed to ignore them as there is no greater number? Does it mean that we have 30 possible cases?