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Three friends sharing a weekday of birth

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Three friends each have a birth weekday that is uniform over the 77 days and independent of the others. What is the probability that at least two of them share a birth weekday?

Short answer

1949\tfrac{19}{49}. Work with the complement: all three differ with probability 7⋅6⋅573=3049\tfrac{7\cdot6\cdot5}{7^3}=\tfrac{30}{49}, so a shared weekday has probability 1−3049=19491-\tfrac{30}{49}=\tfrac{19}{49}.

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