Product of nine dice divisible by four
Question
Yungeun throws nine fair six-sided dice at once and multiplies the nine numbers shown. What is the probability that the product is a multiple of ?
Short answer
. The product fails only if every die is odd (probability ), or exactly one die is even and that die is or , contributing a single factor of (probability ). So the answer is .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
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