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Three fair dice are rolled. Given that the sum of the three numbers is a multiple of , the probability that their product is divisible by is in lowest terms. Then equals ____.
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Answer: 16
Count outcomes among the ordered triples. The sums that are multiples of are . The number of ordered triples with these sums is (for sum : permutations of ; for sum : ; for sum : ; for sum : ). Among them, the triples whose product is divisible by number for the sums respectively; the others have product either odd or twice an odd number. Hence the conditional probability is . Since , . A direct enumeration over all outcomes agrees with these counts.
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