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Four dice adding up to twenty

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Four fair six-sided dice are thrown together. Find the probability that their total is exactly 2020.

Short answer

35/129635/1296. Write each die as 7−yi7-y_i; then the yi∈{1,…,6}y_i\in\{1,\dots,6\} sum to 88. Positive solutions of y1+⋯+y4=8y_1+\dots+y_4=8 number (73)=35\binom73=35, and none exceed 66, so the probability is 35/6435/6^4.

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