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Product of nine dice divisible by four

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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 44?

Short answer

505512\tfrac{505}{512}. The product fails only if every die is odd (probability 2−92^{-9}), or exactly one die is even and that die is 22 or 66, contributing a single factor of 22 (probability 9⋅13⋅2−8=32569\cdot\tfrac13\cdot2^{-8}=\tfrac{3}{256}). So the answer is 1−1512−6512=5055121-\tfrac1{512}-\tfrac{6}{512}=\tfrac{505}{512}.

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